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DR.  E.  D.  BARBER. 


OSTEOPATHY7 


THE  NEW  SCIENCE  OF  HEALING. 


PREFACE  TO  THIRD  EDITION. 

The  fact  that  "Osteopathy,"  since  its  appearance  a  year  ago,  has  run  through 
two  editions,  would  seem  sufficient  proof  that  its  purpose  has  not  entirely  miscar- 
ried. It  was  written  for  family  use,  as  there  are  multitudes  of  ailments  constantly 
occuring  in  every  family  which  can  easily  be  cured  by  a  very  superficial  knowledge 
of  Osteopathy,  although,  to  be  proficient  in  the  treatment  of  complicated  cases,  the 
student  must  have  a  complete  and  thorough  knowledge  of  anatomy,  physiology, 
and  diagnosis.  We  desire  to  express  our  extreme  gratitude  to  the  physicians, 
students,  and  laity  for  their  hearty  and  unqualified  endorsement. 


PRESS  OF 

HUDSON-KIMBERLY   PUBLISHING    CO. 
KANSAS  CITY,   MO. 


Copyright,  1896 

by 
DR.  K. D. BARBER 


INDEX. 


Asthma,  Symptoms  of 24 

Asthma,  Cause  of 24 

Asthma  Treatment 27 

Abscess,  Symptoms  of 147 

Abscess  Treatment 148 

Atrophy,  Cause  of 52 

Breasts,  Gathered 167 

Backache .148 

Bronchitis,  Symptoms  of 35 

Bronchitis    Treatment 35 

Bloody  Flux,  Symptoms  of 55 

Bloody  Flux,   Cause  of 56 

Bloody  Flux  Treatment 61 

Brain  Fever,  Symptoms  of 100 

Brain  Fever,   Cause  of 101 

Brain  Fever  Treatment 102 

Biliousness,    Symptoms   of 149 

Biliousness,  Treatment  for 149 

Baldness 149 

Bright's  Disease,  Symptoms  of..  74 
Bright's  Disease  Treatment  for..  76 

Circulation  of  the  Blood 22 

Consumption,   Symptoms  of 31 

Consumption,    Cause   of 31 

Consumption  Treatment 32 

Cerebro-Spinal  Meningitis,  Symp- 
toms of 44 

Cerebro-Spinal  Meningitis  Treat- 
ment   45 

Coughs 28 

Colds 28 

Cholera  Morbus,   Symptoms  of..  56 

Cholera  Morbus,  Cause  of 5(5 

Cholera   Morbus   Treatment 61 

Cramp  in  theBowels,  Cause  of...  62 
Cramp  in  the  Bowels,  Treatment 

-for 62 

Cramp    in    the    Stomach,    Treat- 
ment for 65 

Chronic  Diarrhea,  Symptoms  of.  65 
Chronic  Diarrhea,  Treatment  for.  65 

Chronic  Gout 152 

Constipation,    Symptoms    of 66 

Constipation,   Cause  of 67 

Constipation  Treatment 69 

Congestive  Chills,  Symptoms  of.  99 
Congestive  Chills,  Treatment  for. 100 

Catarrh 113,  134,  138,  139 

Catarrhal   Deafness 134,   139 

Canker  of  the  Mouth 150 

Crick  in  the  Neck 150 

Convulsions 152 

Cramp  in  the  Legs 153 

Colic 154 

Change  of  Life 164 

Difficult  Breathing 28 

Diphtheria,  Symptoms  of 36 

Diphtheria,  Cause  of 39 

Diphtheria,   Treatment   for 39 

Dysentery 55 

Digestion,    Process    of 57 

Dyspepsia 73 

Dropsy,   Symptoms  of 94 

Dropsy,    Cause    of 95 

Dropsy,  Treatment  for 96 


Dripping    Eyes 138 

Dizziness 151 

Diseases  of  the  Head 134 

Eczema,    Symptoms   of 126 

Eczema,   Treatment  for 126 

Erysipelas  of  the  Face 134 

Erysipelas    of    the    Face,    Symp- 
toms   of 141 

Erysipelas    of    the    Face,    Treat- 
ment   for 141 

Earache 150 

Eyes,  Dripping 134,  138 

Fever  and  Ague,  Symptoms  of..  99 
Fever  and  Ague,  Treatment  for.  .100 

Fevers 112 

Fistula,  Treatment  for 145 

Feet,    Cold 148 

Feet,   Hot 148 

Feet,    Aching 148 

Fits 152 

Fainting 155 

General  Treatment  of  the  Spine.  32 

General    Treatment 93 

General  Debility 97 

General  Debility,  Treatment  for.  97 
General  Treatment  of  the  Neck.. 134 

Granulated   Eyelids 134,   137 

Goitre,    Symptoms   of 130 

Goitre,  Treatment  for 133 

Gout,  Chronic 152 

Heart  Disease 80 

Heart  Disease,  Treatment  for 86 

Heart,  Feeble  Action  of 92 

Hart,  Enlargement  of  the 91 

Heart,  Enlargement  of  the,  Treat- 
ment   for 91 

Headache,    Treatment    for 107 

Headache,    Nervous,    Treatment 

for 108 

Headache,  Sick,  Cause  of 108 

Headache,  Sick,  Treatment  for.. 108 

Hiccough 112 

Hay  Fever 113 

Hoarseness 152 

Hip    Disease 152 

Indigestion,  Symptoms  and  Cause 

of 73 

Indigestion,   Treatment  for 74 

Inflammation  of  the  Kidneys 74 

Inflammation     of    the     Kidneys, 

Treatment    for 76 

Inflammation  of  the  Eyes... 134,  137 
Inflammation  of  the  Eyes,  Treat- 
ment   for 137 

KidneyDisease 74 

Lame  Back,  Treatment  for 122 

Leucorrhea 164 

Menstruation,    Suppressed 163 

Man  as  a  Machine 21 

Membraneous   Croup,    Symptoms 

of 40 

Membraneous  Croup,  Treatment 

for 40 

Mumps 134,    140 

Milk  Leg 148 


INDEX. 


Nursing   Sore    Mouth 43 

Neuralgia,   Symptoms  of 144 

Neuralgia,  Treatment  for 144 

Osteopathy  in  a  Nutshell 15 

Osteopathy,  How  to  Apply 18 

Obstetrics 168 

Pimples 151 

Preface 

Putrid   Sore  Throat 43 

Palsy 46 

Paralysis,    Symptoms   of 46 

Paralysis,  Cause  of 46 

Paralysis,  How  to  Make  the  Ex- 
amination   in 48 

Paralysis,   Treatment   for 48 

Polypus  of  the  Nose 134,  130 

Pneumonia,    Symptoms   of 143 

Pneumonia,  Treatment  for 143 

Piles 146 

Pleurisy 28 

Reasearches  of  E.   D.   Barber...  11 
Rheumatism,    Acute,    Symptoms 

of 113 

Rheumatism,    Acute,    Treatment 

for 117 

Rheumatism,  Chronic,  Symptoms 

of 114 

Rheumatism,  Chronic,  Cause  of. 114 
Rheumatism,  Chronic,  Treatment 

for 117 

Rheumatism,    Inflammatory, 

Cause    of ". 114 

Rheumatism,    Inflammatory, 

Treatment    for 117 

Rheumatism  in  the  Arms 118 

Rheumatism  of  the   Entire   Sys- 
tem, Treatment  for 121 

Rheumatism,  Sciatic 122 


Roaring  in  the  Head IS  1-1 30 

Spleen,  Enlargement  of  the 79 

Spleen,   Enlargement  of  the, 

Treatment  for 80 

St.  Vitus's  Dance 144 

Skeleton 21,  169 

Tracing   a   Dose  of   Medicine   on 
its  Journey  to  an  Affected 

Part 115 

Tonsils,  Enlargement  of  the.. 134,  141 

Torpid  Liver 66 

The  Thyroid  Gland Kio 

The  Nervous   System -17 

The  Liver fix 

The  Kidneys 75 

The  Spleen 70 

The  Diaphragm Ill 

The  Arteries 22,     s-1 

The  Veins 22,  84,     '.K 

The  Nerves 23 

The   Heart 83 

The  Capillaries 84 

The  Brain 100 

The   Fallopian  Tubes 156 

The   Uterus 155 

The   Ovaries 156 

Tumors,  Fleshy 133 

Uterus,  Displacements  of  the 157 

Uterus,  Prolapsus  of  the 157 

Uterus,  Anteversion ]•">> 

Uterus,   Treatment   for 1iio 

Varicose  Veins,  Symptoms  of — l:< 
Varicose  Veins,  Treatment  for...l_'ii 

Vomiting ^ 

White  Swelling,  Symptoms  of — 152 
White  Swelling,  Treatment  for.. 153 
Whooping-Cough,  Symptoms  of.. 142 
Whooping-Cough,  Treatment  for. 142 


EXPLANATORY. 

Aponeurosis — A  fibrous  expansion  of  a  tendon. 

Conjunctiva — Mucous  membrane  of  the  eye. 

Bifurcation — Dividing  into  two  branches. 

Poupart's  Ligament — Ligament  in  upper  part  of  thigh. 

Areola — A  ring-like  discoloration. 

Arteriole — A  small  artery. 

I'adicle — A  rootlet. 

titcrno-clavicular  Articulation — Articulation  of  the  clavicle 

(collar-bone)  and  sternum  (breast-bone). 
A  jtcricnts — Substances  having  power  to  open  passages. 
Protoplasm — Primitive  organic  cell  matter. 
Urea — Chief  solid  constituent  of  the  urine. 

I  'ric  Acid — Acid  normally  found  in  urine. 

II  ile — Yellow  bitter  liquid  secreted  by  the  liver. 
Ileocecal  Valve — Valve  between  the  ileum  and  caBcum. 
Crest  of  the  Ileum — Upper  free  margin  of  the  ileum. 
Diaphragm — Muscular  wall  between  the  thorax  and  abdomen. 
Tuberculosis — Infectious  disease  due  to  specific  bacillus. 
Hemiplegia — Paralysis  of  one  side  of  the  body. 

Paralgia — Disordered  sense  of  pain  in  a  part. 

Encephalon — The  brain. 

Foramina — Openings  in  the  bones  for  passage  of  vessels  and 

nerves. 

Esophagus — Canal  leading  from  the  larynx  to  the  stomach. 
(.'It i/nic— Food  that  has  undergone  gastric,  but  not  intestinal, 

digestion. 

Plidri/ii.t; — Musculo-membraneous  sac  behind  the  mouth. 
Larynx — Upper  part  of  windpipe. 
Pyloric  Orifice — Opening  in  pyloric  end  of  stomach. 
Duodenum — First  part  of  the  small  intestine. 


6  OSTEOPATHY. 

Tiiyroul  Cartilage — Largest  laryngeal  cartilage. 
Tendon — White  fibrous  tissue,  attachment  of  the  muscles. 
Peripheral  Nerves — Peripheral,  pertaining  to  the  circumfer- 
ence or  boundary  line. 

Ligament — A  band  of  fibrous  tissue  binding  parts  together. 
Cartilaginous — Pertaining  to  cartilage — viz.,  gristle. 
Pleura — Serous  membrane  enveloping  the  lungs. 


PREFACE  TO  FIRST  EDITION. 

By  an  examination  of  the  literature  of  the  world,  it  will  be 
found  that  the  subject  of  Osteopathy  has  never  yet  been 
placed  before  the  public  in  book  form.  Its  fundamental 
principles  were  discovered  by  Dr.  Andrew  T.  Still,  and  a 
class  established  by  him,  of  which  the  author  is  a  graduate. 

Knowing  that  Osteopathy  is  destined  to  revolutionize 
the  medical  world,  and  realizing  that  even  a  limited  knowl- 
edge of  this  most  wonderful  science  would  save  worlds  of 
suffering  and  thousands  of  human  lives,  as  a  duty  we  owe  to 
humanity  we  have  thrust  aside  the  vail  of  mystery  in  which 
it  has  been  shrouded  and  place  it  before  the  thinking  world 
in  all  its  grandeur,  simplicity,  and  truth. 

As  this  book  is  intended  to  reach  the  masses,  we  will 
endeavor  to  avoid  as  much  as  possible  anatomical  words  and 
medical  phrases,  which  too  long  have  been  used  to  confuse 
and  mystify  the  people. 

Dr.  Elmer  D.  Barber. 


WHAT   THE    DRUG   DOCTORS   SAY. 

The  following  nineteen  quotations,  from  leadiilg  drug 
doctors,  are  copied  from  "Medical  Hygiene,"  a  very  infer ( st- 
ing and  instructive  volume,  by  W.  Frank  Ross,  A.M.,  M.D. 

Prof.  Gilman,  of  the  New  York  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons,  says:  "A  mild  mercurial  course  and  mildly 
cutting  a  man's  throat  are  synonymous  terms.'1 

John  Mason  Goode,  M.D.,  F.R.S.,  says:  '"The  effects  of 
our  medicines  on  the  human  system  are  in  the  highest  degree 
uncertain,  except,  indeed,  that  they  have  destroyed  more 
lives  than  war,  pestilence,  and  famine  combined." 

Sir  John  Forbes,  M.D.,  F.R.S.,  says:  "Some  patients  get 
well  with  the  aid  of  medicine,  more  without  it,  and  still  more 
in  spite  of  it." 

James  Johnson,  M.D.,  F.R.S.,  says:  "I  declare  as  my 
conscientious  conviction,  founded  on  long  experience  and  re- 
flection, that  if  there  were  not  a  single  physician,  surgeon, 
man-midwife,  chemist,  apothecary,  druggist,  or  drug  on  the 
face  of  the  earth,  there  would  be  less  sickness  and  less  mor- 
tality than  now  prevail." 

Alonzo  Clark,  professor  in  the  New  York  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons,  says:  "In  their  zeal  to  do  good 
physicians  have  done  much  harm;  they  have  hurried  to 
the  grave  many  who  would  have  recovered  if  left  to  Na- 
ture." "All  our  curative  agents  are  poisons,  and  as  a  conse- 
quence every  dose  diminishes  the  patient's  vitality.'' 

Martin  Payne,  professor  in  the  New  York  University 
Medical  College,  says:  "Drug  medicines  do  but  cure  one  dis- 
ease by  producing  another." 


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Prof.  S.  G.  Armor,  of  the  Long  Island  Hospital,  says: 
"Drugs  are  administered,  patients  recover,  and  we  suppose 
that  we  have  cured  them,  whereas  our  remedies  have  had 
little  or  nothing  to  do  with  recovery;  very  likely  it  took 
place  in  spite  of  our  drugs." 

Prof.  J.  W.  Carson,  of  the  New  York  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons,  says:  ''Perhaps  bread  pills  would  cure 
as  many  as  medicine." 

The  celebrated  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  M.D.,  says: 
"Except  opium,  wine,  ether,  and  chloroform,  I  firmly  believe 
that  if  the  whole  materia  medica,  as  now  used,  could  be  sunk 
to  the  bottom  of  the  sea,  it  \vould  be  all  the  better  for  man- 
kind, and  all  the  worse  for  the  fishes." 

Sir  John  Forbes,  M.D.,  editor  of  the  British  and  Foreign 
Medical  Review,  and  physician  to  the  Queen  of  England,  in  a 
book  called  "Nature  and  Art  in  the  Cure  of  Diseases,"  p.oves 
that  Nature  is  the  real  healing  power  by  the  following  facts: 
'•(1)  Wild  animals  suffer  the  most  severe  and  frequently  have 
epidemic  diseases,  and  yet  recover  without  artificial  aid.  (If 
animals  don't  need  drugs,  do  we?)  (2)  Among  the  half- 
civilized  nations  medical  treatment  is  either  not  employed, 
or  consists  of  mere  charms.  (If  sick  savages  recover  with 
out  drugs,  can't  we?)  (3)  Many  cases  have  occurred  in 
which  persons  have  had  serious  sickness  and,  being  unable 
to  procure  medicine,  have  gotten  well.  (4)  Many  physicians 
have  experimented  on  the  sick  by  giving  bread  pills  and  col- 
ored water,  and  find  that  their  patients  get  well  as  surely 
and  quickly  as  if  they  had  taken  drugs." 

The  venerable  Dr.  Richards,  of  New  York,  cured  more 
than  one  hundred  cases  of  obstinate  constipation  by  simply 
directing  the  patient  to  drink  a  glass  of  cold  water  half  an 
hour  before  breakfast  each  morning. 


10  OSTEOPATHY. 

A  surgeon  of  militia  in  the  medical  corps  of  the  British 
Army,  and  assistant  professor  of  pathology  in  the  Army  and 
.Medical  School  at  Netly,  said  in  an  article  in  the  liritixli 
Medical  Journal:  "The  practice  which  in  main  guided  n:e  in 
the  treatment  of  syphilis  was  the  practice  of  avoiding  mer- 
cury as  much  as  possible.  My  sheet-anchor  has  in  all  cases 
been  the  frequent  hot-water  baths." 

Drs.  Gray  and  Tuckwell,  in  the  London  Lancet,  report 
that  "the  hygiene  plan  alone  is  sufficient  to  cure  chorea, 
and  quite  as  promptly  as  any  drug.'' 

The  eminent  Lebert,  speaking  of   typhus   fever,   said: 
"Drugs,  as  such,  are  unnecessary;    1  give  them  chiefly  to  s  il 
isfy  the  patients  and  their  frit-nds.-" 

Prof.  B.  F.  Barker,  of  the  New  York  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons,  says:  "The  drugs  which  are  administer  d 
for  the  cure  of  scarlet  fever  and  measles  kill  far  more  than 
the  diseases  do.  I  have  recently  given  no  medicine  in  th  ir 
treatment,  and  have  had  excellent  success.'' 

Sir  Astley  Cooper,  ]\I.1>.,  and  physician  to  the  (,)neen  of 
England,  says:  "The  science  of  medicine  is  founded  on  con- 
jecture, and  improved  by  murder." 

Dr.  Ramage,  Fellow  of  the  Royal  College,  London,  says: 
"I  fearlessly  assert  that  in  most  cases  the  su Merer  would  be 
safer  without  a  physician  than  with  one." 

Dr.  Frank  says:  "Thousands  are  annually  slaughtered 
in  the  quiet  sick-room." 

The  celebrated  Dr.  Holmes  says:  "No  families  take  so 
little  medicine  as  those  of  doctors,  except  those  of  druggists." 


RESEARCHES  OF  DR.  ELMER  D.  BARBER. 

The  author  was  born  in  Oneida,  N.  Y.,  May  17,  1858.  and 
when  a  mere  boy  arrived  at  the  conclusion  that  the  age  of 
miracles  was  past,  and  that  all  results  could  be  traced  to  a 
reasonable  cause. 

While  in  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  we  met  a  gentleman  who, 
without  the  use  of  drugs  or  surgical  instruments,by  manip- 
ulations which  he  could  not  explain,  was  curing  hundreds 
of  people  in  a  public  hall. 

Then  came  Paul  Castor,  whose  cures  were  equally  mar- 
velous and  likewise  inexplicable.  We  visited  faith  doc- 
tors and  spiritualistic  mediums  and  witnessed  their  results, 
but  found  the  principle  on  which  they  worked  shrouded  in 
mystery. 

We  next  heard  of  Dr.  Andrew  T.  Still,  who  was  effecting 
cure  after  cure  in  a  marvelous  manner,  upon  (as  he  claimed) 
scientific  principles.  We  visited  the  old  doctor,  were  con- 
vinced that  he  had  discovered  the  fundamental  principles 
on  which  were  based  the  results  accidentally  reached  by 
others,  and  entered  his  School  of  Osteopathy,  from  which 
we  graduated  March  2,  1895,  with  an  average  grade  of  99  in 
Analoiny  and  Physiology  and  100  in  Osteopathy. 

While  it  is  our  desire  to  give  Dr.  Still  credit  for  the  new 
science  which  he  discovered,  we  must  differ  with  him  as  to 
the  true  cause  of  the  results  reached  by  the  Osteopath. 
While  the  good  Doctor  believes  that  nearly  all  diseases  are 
caused  by  dislocated  bones,  nearly  always  finding  them  and 
thereby  winning  for  himself  the  name  of  "Bone  Doctor,"  in 
our  practice  we  never  find  a  great  number  of  dislocations  and 
by  the  same  manipulation  effect  the  same  cures  as  Dr.  Still. 
If  a  bone  is  really  dislocated  and  has  been  in  that  condition 


1 2  OSTEOPATHY. 

for  years,  the  dislocation  can  not  be  reduced;  but  if  the 
muscles  are  contracted,  causing  a  stiff  joint  or  depressing  the 
ribs,  they  can  be  quickly  relieved  by  manipulation,  and  the 
patient  is  easily  led  to  believe  that  the  bone  was  dislocated. 
While  we  do  not  doubt  for  an  instant  that  our  classmates 
are  sincere  in  their  belief  that  in  catarrh,  sore  eyes,  deafness, 
and  other  disease  of  the  head,  the  atlas  is  dislocated,  and 
that  they  cure  these  diseases  by  setting  the  atlas,  we  believe 
that  twisting,  pulling,  and  stretching  the  neck  in  a  vain 
attempt  to  move  the  atlas  stretches  the  muscles,  thereby 
freeing  the  circulation  and  permitting  Nature  to  assert  her- 
self. Be  they  right  or  wrong,  our  readers  can  cure  any  acute 
disease  in  the  head,  almost  instantly,  by  gently  pulling  on  the 
head  and  rotating  it  in  all  directions;  and  any  chronic  com- 
plaint, except  cancer,  total  deafness,  or  total  blindness,  by 
a,  continuation  of  the  same  method.  We  all  agree  upon  the 
one  great  point  that  man  is  a  machine,  and  that  nerve- 
centers  have  been  discovered  upon  which  a  press  re  of  the 
hand  will  cause  the  heart  to  slow  or  quicken  its  action,  from 
which  we  can  regulate  the  action  of  the  stomach,  bowels, 
liver,  pancreas,  kidneys,  and  the  diaphragm.  The  thousands 
of  people  snatched  from  the  grave  by  an  application  of  th:  se 
never-failing  principles  are  proof  postive  that  at  last  the 
keynote  has  been  struck;  that  at  last  a  man  is  found  and  a 
school  established  that  can  explain  intelligently  why  certain 
manipulations  produce  certain  results. 

Viewing  the  brain,  the  cerebro-spinal  cord,  and  the  nerves 
as  an  immense  telegraph  system  (the  brain  acting  not  only 
as  a  great  dynamo,  generating  the  forces  which  control  and 
move  the  body,  but  as  headquarters,  receiving  and  .sending 
messages  to  all  parts  of  the  body;  the  slender  nerves  passing 
through,  under,  over,'  and  between  the  hundreds  of  bones, 
muscles,  arteries,  veins,  ligaments,  and  various  organs),  can 
you  wonder  that  the  wires  are  sometimes  down,that  the  com- 


OSTEOPATHY.  13 

munication  is  occasionally  cut  off  between  headquarters  and 
some  important  office,  or  that  paralysis  is  the  result?  Do 
you  wonder  that  occasionally  the  wires  are  crossed,  and  that 
the  message  (possibly  to  the  bowels,  to  discharge  their  load) 
is  received  by  the  kidneys,  which  promptly  obey  the  order? 
The  bowels  having  failed  to  respond  to  orders  from  head- 
quarters, a  second  message  goes  over  the  wires,  and  again 
the  kidneys  answer  the  summons;  the  result  is  kidney  disease 
and  constipation.  Will  you  pour  poisonous  drugs  into  the 
unoffending  stomach,  which  has  never  failed  to  obey  an 
order  received,  or  would  it  be  advisable  to  try  and  fix  the 
wires?  While  we  cannot  go  directly  to  the  nerves  at  fault, 
we  can,  by  manipulations,  which  will  be  fully  described  under 
their  proper  head,  stretch  the  contracted  muscle  that  is 
obstructing  the  current;  whereupon,  if  the  case  has  not 
become  chronic,  the  bowels  will  immediately  resume  their 
functions  and  the  excited  kidneys  will  cease  to  act  so  rapidly. 
In  chronic  cases  it  usually  takes  Nature  from  two  to  six 
weeks  to  assert  herself.  In  the  nervous  system,  as  in  the 
telegraphic,  the  current  must  not  be  obstructed,  or  disease 
and  death  are  the  result. 

The  massage  treatment,  which  we  believe  is  based  upon 
strength  and  ignorance,  effects  many  remarkable  cures  by 
moving  the  flesh  and  muscles  in  all  possible  directions  over 
the  entire  body.  They  unwittingly  and  unavoidably,  if  they 
are  very  thorough,  free  the  right  spot,  establishing  the  cir- 
cuit, thus  permitting  Nature  to  assert  herself. 

Another  very  important  part  in  this  complicated  machine 
is  the  systemic,  pulmonary,  and  portal  circulation:  the 
arteries,  cylindrical  vessels,  conveying  the  blood  through 
this  network  of  nerves  and  muscles  to  all  parts  of  the  body; 
the  veins  gathering  up  and  returning  it  to  the  never -tiring 
heart,  pumping  steadily  throughout  a  lifetime,  driving  the 
blood  to  the  most  remote  part  of  the  system  and  forcing  it 


I4  OSTEOPATHY. 

to  return.  Is  it  to  be  wondered  at  that  occasionally  a  muscle 
contracts,  after  a  hard  day's  work  or  exposure  to  the  cold, 
possibly  obstructing  some  little  river  of  blood  on  its  journey 
to  nourish  a  given  part?  Do  you  wonder  that  the  part  in 
question  weakens  from  lack  of  nourishment  and  fails  to 
perform  its  allotted  task?  As  it  is  the  blood  that  must  con- 
vey all  substances  of  nourishment  to  the  different  parts,  is 
it  a  wonder  that  the  medicine  never  arrives  a.t  its  destination? 
Should  a  large  artery  be  obstructed  in  a  similar  manner, 
would  it  be  surprising  if  the  heart,  working  against  heavy 
odds,  trying  to  pump  the  blood  past  the  obstruction,  in  time 
felt  the  pressure?  in  which  case  heart  disease  would  be  the 
result.  Shall  we  now  convert  the  long-suffering  stomach 
into  a  drug  store,  or,  viewing  man  as  a  machine,  remove  the 
cause?  Should  the  contraction  be  in  the  thigh,  obstructing 
the  femoral  artery,  we  have  cold  feet  and  limbs  on  one  side 
of  the  obstruction,  and  heart  disease  on  the  other.  If  the 
veins  returning  the  blood  are  obstructed  in  the  same  region, 
we  may  have  either  dropsy,  inflammatory  rheumatism,  ery- 
sipelas, eczema,  or  varicose  veins,  caused  by  the  stagnant, 
pent-up  blood,  on  one  side,  and  heart  disease  on  the  other. 
Having  briefly  referred  to  the  bones  that  support  the 
nerves  that  control,  and  the  blood  that  supplies,  let  us  dwell 
for  a  moment  on  the  muscles  that  move  and  propel  this  won- 
derful living  machine.  As  the  only  power  muscles  have  is 
in  contraction,  they  must  be  arranged  in  such  a  position  and 
so  attached  to  the  bone  as  to  pull  from  any  direction  in  which 
it  may  be  necessary  to  move  a  given  part.  Receiving  as  they 
do  not  only  their  orders  to  act,  but  their  motor  power,  from 
that  great  dynamo  the  brain,  they  may  be  justly  compared 
to  so  many  electric  cars.  One  car  may  be  larger  and  stronger 
than  another,  but,  deprived  of  the  current  from  that  slender 
\\ire,  which  of  itself  is  nothing,  neither  can  move  from  its 
position.  Is  this  not  indeed  a  delicate  and  complicated 


OSTEOPATHY.  !5 

piece  of  machinery,  the  nerves  and  fluids  of  the  body  moving 
unobstructed  through  the  hundreds  of  rapidly  contracting 
and  relaxing  muscles?  We  state  most  emphatically  that  the 
true  cause  of  all  disease  may  be  traced  to  some  muscle  which 
has  contracted  and  for  some  unaccountable  reason  has  failed 
to  relax,  thus  interfering  with  all  the  forces  of  life.  It  is  by 
working  on  these  principles  which  we  have  briefly  sketched 
that  we  achieve  results  bordering  on  the  miraculous;  it  is  by 
working  on  these  principles  that  we  draw  patients  and  stu 
dents  from  the  length  and  breadth  of  our  land;  it  is  by  work- 
ing on  these  same  principles,  fully  explained  and'  illustrated 
in  the  following  pages,  that  any  family  can  attain  some  very 
remarkable  results. 

OSTEOPATHY  IN  A  NUTSHELL. 

First:  Using  the  arms  and  limbs  as  levers,  stretching 
all  muscles  to  which  they  give  attachment  and  moving  the 
flesh  and  muscles  from  side  to  side  the  entire  length  of  the 
limb  stretches  and  softens  those  muscles,  thus  permitting  a 
free  flow  of  the  fluids  and  nerve  forces  to  these  parts,  a 
stoppage  of  which  means  disease  in  some  of  its  varied  forms. 
One  thorough  treatment  of  an  arm  or  leg  will  often  instantly 
cure  and  always  relieve  an  acute  case  of  any  nature  in  the 
extremities,  and  a  very  few  treatments,  administered  one 
each  day,  will  cure  any  acute  case.  Chronic  cases  can  be 
usually  cured  by  a  continuation  of  the  treatment,  every  other 
day,  for  from  two  to  six  weeks,  even  after  all  other  methods 
have  been  tried  and  failed. 

Second:  Move  and  soften,  by  deep  manipulations  and 
by  rotating  the  body  a.s  much  as  possible,  all  the  muscles  of 
I  he  spine,  the  cerebro-spinal  cord  being  the  great  trunk  from 
which  springs  the  spinal  nerves,  it  being  contained  in  and 
protected  by  the  upper  three-fourths  of  the  spinal  column, 
which  is  very  flexible,  consisting  of  many  separate  bones, 


!6  OSTEOPATHS, 

between  which  is  placed  the  elastic  intravertebral  cartilage. 
As  the  spinal  nerves  which  control  the  different  muscles, 
organs,  etc.,  escape  from  the  spinal  cord  through  openings 
or  foramina  in  the  different  sections  of  the  vertebral  column, 
it  will  be  readily  understood  that  the  numerous  muscles 
which  are  attached  to  and  move  the  spine  must  always  be 
very  soft  and  elastic;  that  contraction  here  means  inter- 
ference with  nerves  that  may  control  some  distant  part  and 
a  consequent  partial  or  complete  paralysis  of  that  part,  until 
by  manipulation  or  accidentally  you  stretch  the  muscle  at 
fault,  thus  turning  on  the  current  from  that  great  dynamo 
the  brain,  and  once  more  your  machine  moves  forward. 
What  would  be  your  opinion  of  a  motorman,  when  his  car 
came  to  a  standstill  through  lack  of  motor  power,  if  he  poured 
medicine  on  the  wheels?  It  would  be  just  as  sensible  as 
converting  the  stomach  into  an  apothecary's  shop,  hoping 
thereby  to  remove  an  obstruction  which  was  breaking  the 
current  between  headquarters  and  the  liver.  We  find  that 
there  are  very  few  organic  troubles  whose  origin  may  not  be 
traced  directly  to  the  spine  and  cured  by  a  thorough  treat- 
ment of  the  spinal  column  continued  every  second  day  for 
from  two  to  six  weeks.  In  90  per  cent  of  all  cases  immediate 
relief  will  be  the  result  of  the  first  treatment. 

Third:  Using  the  head  as  a  lever,  move  and  stretch  all 
the  muscles  of  the  neck.  This  treatment  frees  the  circula- 
tion to  the  head,  an  obstruction  of  which  is  the  true  cause 
of  catarrh,  weak  eyes,  deafness,  roaring  in  the  head,  dizziness, 
and,  in  fact,  almost  all  disorders  of  the  head.  Many  acute 
cases  can  be  instantly  cured,  while  those  that  have  become 
chronic  require  from  two  to  six  weeks. 

Fourth:  Bending  the  patient  backward,  with  the  knee 
pressing  on  the  back  just  below  the  last  rib,  will  instantly 
cure  any  case  of  looseness  of  the  bowels,  from  common 


OSTEOPATHY.  17 

diarrhea  to  bloody  flux,  and  a  continuation  of  the  treatment 
will  cure  any  case  of  chronic  diarrhea. 

Fifth:  A  nerve-center  has  been  discovered  at  the  base 
of  the  brain,  termed  vaso-motor,  which  can  be  reached  by  a 
pressure  on  the  back  of  the  neck  over  the  upper  cervicals.  A 
pressure  at  this  point  continued  from  three  to  five  minutes 
will  slow  the  action  of  the  heart,  often  reducing  the  pulse 
from  100  to  a  normal  condition  in  a  few  minutes'  time.  It  is 
from  this  center  that,  without  the  use  of  drugs,  we  control 
fevers,  curing  any  fever  that  is  curable  in  one-half  the  time 
that  the  same  work  can  be  done  with  medicine. 

Sixth:  In  all  cases  where  the  general  system  seems  to 
be  affected,  give  a  general  treatment,  thus  freeing  and  per- 
mitting all  the  forces  of  the  machine  to  act. 

Seventh:  Never  treat  an  acute  case  oftener  than  once 
in  three  hours,  or  a  chronic  case  oftener  than  once  a  day. 

Eighth:  It  is  never  safe  to  use  this  treatment  during 
pregnancy,  except  in  diseases  of  the  head  or  extremities,  and 
in  those  with  caution.  To  draw  the  arms  high  and  strongly 
above  the  head,  at  the  same  instant  pressing  on  the  spine 
below  the  last  dorsal  vertebra,  or  to  flex  the  limbs  strongly 
against  the  chest,  during  this  period,  is  dangerous  in  the 
extreme.  '  |  ..  j 

Ninth:  While  this  treatment  will  improve  the  action 
and  remove  the  pain  in  stiff,  chronic  dislocated  joints,  the 
dislocation  can  never  be  reduced.  We  have  seen  it  tried 
and  tried  it  ourselves  a  great  many  times,  meeting  with  no 
success  where  there  was  really  a  dislocation.  There  are  a 
great  many  cases  where  the  patient  is  suffering  from  rheuma- 
tism or  a  similar  trouble  in  which  the  muscles  are  contracted, 
and  he  can  easily  be  led  to  believe  that  a  dislocation  does 
really  exist,  and  that  the  operator  who  simply  stretches  the 
muscles  has  reduced  the  imaginary  dislocation.  This  we 
believe  also  to  be  the  case  regarding  the  many  dislocated 

—2— 


I8  OSTEOPATHY. 

ribs  found  by  the  average  "bone  doctor."  While  they  may  be 
correct,  we  have  demonstrated  the  fact,  times  without  num- 
ber, that  drawing  the  arms  high  above  the  head,  at  the  same 
instant  pressing  at  almost  any  point  with  the  knee  immedi- 
ately below  the  scapulas,  thus  stretching  the  muscles  of  the 
chest  and  springing  the  ribs  forward,  will  instantly  cure 
sharp  acute  pains  in  the  sides  or  chest  and  certain  cases  of 
heart  disease,  while  a  continuation  of  the  same  treatment 
will  cure  asthma  or  consumption.  It  is  on  this  vital  point 
that  we  differed  in  class  as  well  as  in  practice  with  the  other 
members  of  our  profession.  While  they  trace  most  effects 
to  dislocated  bones,  and  never  fail  to  effect  a  cure  if  it  is 
within  the  bounds  of  reason,  we  effect  equally  remarkable 
cures  by  simply  stretching  and  manipulating  the  muscles, 
thus  freeing  the  circulation.  While  we  do  not  believe  it 
possible  that  to  hide  his  secrets  a  "bone  doctor"  would  deceive 
the  public,  we  believe  that  in  a  vain  attempt  to  set  the  bones 
in  the  manner  prescribed  by  Dr.  Still  the  circulation  is  freed 
and  the  patient  recovers. 

HOW  TO  APPLY  OSTEOPATHY. 

First:  Secure  a  pine  table,  two  feet  high,  two  feet  wide, 
and  six  feet  long,  over  which  spread  a  bed-quilt  and  at  one 
end  place  one  or  two  pillows.  While  an  acute  case  may  be 
treated  on  a  chair,  a  couch,  or  on  the  floor,  for  a  chronic  case, 
which  is  liable  to  take  several  weeks'  treatment,  it  is  ahva  vs 
advisable  to  secure  a  table. 

Second:  In  treating  a  gentleman  it  is  seldom  necessary 
to  remove  more  than  his  outer  clothing. 

Tlnnl:  A  lady  must  loosen  her  tight  clothing  and  re- 
move her  corset.  The  principles  of  Osteopathy  as  described 
in  this  work  can  be  applied  successfully  through  a  reasonable 
amount  of  clothing,  except  in  cases  which  will  be  apparent. 


OSTEOPATHY.  2 1 

MAN  AS  A  MACHINE. 

The  entire  skeleton  in  the  adult  consists  of  two  hundred 
distinct  bones,  articulating  with  each  other  in  perfect  har- 
mony. Some  are  arranged  to  allow  the  utmost  freedom  of 
motion,  others  are  limited,  while  others  are  fixed  and  immov- 
able. On  the  bones  are  many  prominences  for  the  attach- 
ment of  muscles  and  ligaments  and  many  openings  (or 
foramina)  for  the  entrance  of  nutrient  vessels. 

The  thorax  is  a  bony  cage  formed  by  the  ribs,  the  dorsal 
vertebra,  and  the  sternum;  it  contains  the  principal  organs 
of  respiration  and  circulation. 

Should  the  muscles  of  the  chest  contract,  as  is  often  the 
case,  springing  the  ribs,  which  are  the  most  elastic  bones  in 
the  body,  lessening  the  dimensions  of  the  thorax,  we  have 
asthma,  consumption,  or  heart  disease;  while  a  partial  dis- 
location of  the  lower  ribs,  caused  by  contracting  muscles, 
causes  enlargement  of  the  ,spleen,  stomach  trouble,  and 
various  other  diseases  which  can  readily  be  cured  by  manip- 
ulations. 

There  are  over  five  hundred  muscles  in  the  human  body 
connected  with  the  bones,  cartilage,  and  skin,  either  directly 
or  through  the  intervention  of  fibrous  structures  called  ten- 
dons or  aponeuroses.  Muscles  differ  much  in  size;  the 
gastrocnemius  forms  the  chief  bulk  of  the  back  of  the  leg, 
and  the  fibers  of  the  sartorius  are  nearly  two  feet  in  length, 
while  the  stapedius,  a  small  muscle  of  the  internal  ear,  weighs 
about  a  grain,  and  its  fibers  are  less  than  two  lines  in  length. 

Now,  having  briefly  mentioned  the  bones  and  the  muscles 
we  will  touch  upon  the  arteries  that  nourish  this  most  inter- 
esting and  intricate  piece  of  machinery. 


22  OSTEOPATHY. 

CIRCULATION  OF  THE  BLOOD. 

The  course  taken  by  the  blood  on  its  way  to  the  various 
parts  of  the  body  is  called  the  systemic  circulation,  on  account 
of  its  having  to  make  repeatedly  the  circuit  of  vessels  leading 
to  and  from  the  heart. 

The  arteries  are  small  cylindrical  muscular  vessels,  and 
might  be  compared  to  rivers  throwing  a  branch  to  each  mus- 
cle in  their  course,  while  the  veins  gather  up  and  return  the 
venous  blood  to  the  heart,  where  it  is  pumped  through  the 
pulmonary  arteries  to  the  lungs. 

It  will  now  be  readily  understood,  as  the  heart  is  a 
double  pump,  driving  the  blood  through  the  arteries  and 
veins,  that  the  contraction  of  muscles  throwing  a  pressure 
on  arteries  or  veins  which  pass  through,  under,  or  between 
them  would  certainly  affect  the  heart  and  necessarily  derange 
the  entire  system.  We  trust  that  our  readers  will  note  these 
points  carefully,  as  we  expect  to  prove  that  many  cases  of 
heart  disease,  rheumatism,  dropsy,  neuralgia,  tumor,  goitre, 
and  cancer  are  caused  by  contracted  muscles  and  are  readily 
cured  by  a  system  of  treatment  which  removes  the  cause 
and  gives  Nature  a  chance  to  act. 

To  illustrate  more  fully,  and  demonstrate  the  folly  of 
converting  the  stomach  into  an  apothecary's  shop,  let  us 
compare  the  systemic  circulation  to  an  irrigating  system. 
Through  your  fields  run  innumerable  ditches;  one  is  obstruct- 
ed by  a  fallen  tree,  causing  the  water  to  back  up,  seeking 
some  other  channel  or  a  weak  place  in  the  bank  to  escape. 
What  is  the  result?  Too  much  water  in  one  end  and  too 
little  in  the  other.  Will  you  go  to  the  reservoir  and  throw 
in  a  little  quinine,  a  little  calomel,  and  a  little  whisky,  or 
will  you  remove  the  cause?  Thus  it  is  that  when  confronted 
with  heart  disease  you  should  immediately  ascertain  if  the 
patient  is  troubled  with  cold  extremities;  such  being  the 


OSTEOPATHY.  23 

case.,  using  the  limbs  as  levers,  stretch  the  muscles  as  shown 
in  cut  6,  page  49,  thus  freeing  the  arteries  from  this  undue 
pressure,  permitting  the  blood  to  pass  down  to  and  warm 
the  extremities,  at  the  same  time  relieving  the  heart. 

We  will  now  pass  to  the  nerves,  which  not  only  control 
the  action  of  the  muscles  and  various  organs,  but  also  con- 
trol the  caliber  of  the  arteries,  thus  regulating  (when  not 
interfered  with  by  slight  dislocations  of  bone  or  contraction 
of  muscles)  with  the  utmost  precision  the  entire  systemic, 
pulmonary,  and  portal  circulation.  The  central  part  of  the 
nervous  system  or  cerebro-spinal  axis  consists  of  the  spinal 
cord  (medulla  spinalis),  the  bulb  (medulla  oblongata),  and 
the  brain ;  the  spinal  cord  being  the  great  bond  of  connection 
between  the  brain  and  the  majority  of  the  peripheral  nerves. 
As  most  of  the  nerves  originate  in  the  spinal  cord,  and  as  the 
cord  is  in  direct  communication  with  and  might  be  considered 
part  of  the  brain,  it  will  be  readily  understood  that  a  pressure 
on  any  of  these  nerves,  interrupting  communication  between 
the  brain  and  some  distant  part,  will  cause  paralysis  of  the 
part  controlled  by  the  nerve  involved. 

The  digestive  organs,  liver,  pancreas,  kidneys,  and  even 
the  action  of  the  heart,  can  be  regulated  by  a  slight  pressure 
of  the  hand  on  certain  nerve-centers  in  the  spine,  which  will 
be  discussed  more  fully  in  another  chapter. 

While  we  have  touched  but  briefly  on  the  anatomy  and 
physiology  of  the  human  body,  and  it  would  be  most  inter- 
esting and  instructive  to  read  up  in  Gray  and  Landois,  we 
trust  we  have  proven  to  our  readers  that  man  is  a  machine, 
and  laid  the  foundation  for  a  thorough  understanding  of  our 
method  of  treating  diseases  by  manipulation  and  without 
the  use  of  drugs  or  surgical  inslruntcnls. 


24  OSTEOPATHY. 

ASTHMA. 

Symptoms. 

Recurrent  and  temporary  difficulty  in  breathing,  ac- 
companied by  a  wheezing  sound  and  a  sense  of  constriction 
in  the  throat,  with  cough  and  expectoration.  Authors 
distinguish  two  varieties:  dry  convulsive  or  nervous, 
and  humid  or  common.  In  the  first  variety  the  attacks  are 
sudden  and  violent  and  of  short  duration,  the  sense  of  con- 
striction is  hard,  dry,  and  spasmodic,  the  cough  slight,  and 
expectoration  scanty  and  only  appearing  toward  the  end  of 
the  paroxysm.  In  the  second  variety  the  paroxysm  is  grad- 
ual and  protracted,  the  constriction  heavy,  laborious,  and 
humid,  the  cough  violent,  and  expectoration  commences 
early,  and  is  at  first  scanty  and  viscid,  but  afterward  copious, 
affording  great  relief.  In  many  cases  the  attack  is  in  the 
night,  and  most  frequently  an  hour  or  two  after  midnight. 

Cause  of  Asthma. 

Asthma,  pronounced  incurable  by  the  medical  fraternity, 
can  be  relieved  and  in  most  cases  cured  by  an  application 
of  the  principles  laid  down  in  the  following  pages. 

As  we  have  mentioned  before,  the  thorax  is  a  bony  cage, 
formed  by  the  ribs,  dorsal  vertebrae,  and  sternum,  containing 
and  protecting  the  principal  organs  of  circulation  and  respi- 
ration. The  ribs  are  not  only  very  elastic,  but,  being  con- 
nected with  the  sternum  by  costo-cartilage  and  with  the 
dorsal  vertebrae  by  ligaments,  have  limited  motion.  Thus  it 
will  be  seen  that  they  are  easily  affected  by  accident  or 
contraction  of  the  muscles.  In  most  cases  of  asthma  a 
slight  depression  will  be  noticed  over  the  second,  third, 
and  fourth  ribs  on  the  left  side,  about  two  inches  to 
the  left  of  the  median  line,  while  the  cartilaginous 
portion  of  the  corresponding  ribs  on  the  right 


Cut  1. 


OSTEOPATHY. 


27 


side  will  bo  found  elevated;  occasionally  this  will 
be  reversed,  but  in  either  case  it  is  proof  positive  that 
the  framework  which  is  supposed  to  protect  the  vital 
machinery  of  life  is  out  of  gear.  Now,  having  correctly 
diagnosed  this  case,  having  proven  that  the  lungs  or  bronchial 
tubes  are  not  at  fault,  shall  we  act  on  the  principle  that  the 
human  system  is  a  machine,  and  proceed  to  remove  the  cause? 

Let  us  suppose  you  were  caught  in  a  cyclone  and  a  heavy 
timber  pins  you  to  the  earth.  Will  you  then  beg  for  medicine, 
or  ask  some  friend  to  remove  the  weight  that  bears  you 
down?  If  you  are  suffering  from  asthma,  dear  reader,  each 
faint  cough,  each  gasping  breath  is  a  prayer  from  the  im- 
prisoned organs  within  for  some  one  to  raise  the  ribs  and 
expand  the  chest. 

The  great  Creator,  in  His  infinite  wisdom,  has  arranged 
for  just  such  an  emergency  as  this  by  preparing  a  system  of 
levers,  one  of  which  we  will  now  use  in  raising  the  ribs, 
stretching  the  intercostal  muscles,  and  expanding  the  chest. 

The  pectoralis  major,  a  large  muscle  which  covers  the 
entire  front  of  the  chest,  attaching  to  the  sternal  half  of  the 
clavicle  (collar-bone),  the  six  or  seven  upper  ribs,  and  the 
cartilages  of  all  the  true  ribs,  is  inserted  by  a  flat  tendon 
into  the  external  bicipital  ridge  of  the  humerus  about  two 
or  three  inches  below  the  shoulder-joint.  If  you  will  raise 
your  arm  high  above  the  head,  you  will  feel  all  the  upper 
ribs  move,  thus  proving  that  our  theory  is  correct. 

Asthma  Treatment. 

Place  the  patient  on  the  back,  with  a  pillow  under  the 
head.  Two  assistants  at  the  head  of  the  table;  one  places 
his  right,  the  other  his  left  hand  under  the  patient's  shoulders 
on  the  angle  of  the  second  rib,  half  way  between  1he 
scapula  (shoulder-blade)  and  spine  and  one  inch  above  the 
scapula.  With  the  disengaged  hands  take  the  patient's 


28  OSTEOPATHY. 

wrists,  and,  slowly  drawing  the  arms  upward  high  above 
the  head  (see  cut  1,  page  25),  pull  steadily  and  strongly  for 
a  moment;  at  the  same  time  with  the  fingers  press  steadily 
on  the  angle  of  the  ribs.  Lower  the  arms  slowly,  the  elbows 
passing  below  and  to  the  sides  of  the  table.  Move  the  fingers 
down  the  spine  one  inch,  to  the  angle  of  the  next  rib,  and 
draw  up  the  arms  as  before,  and  repeat  until  you  have  raised 
the  four  or  five  upper  ribs.  It  will  be  also  observed  that 
this  operation  stretches  the  intercostal  muscles. 

The  patient  will  now  be  seated  upon  a  stool.  The  opera- 
tor places  his  knee  between  the  shoulders,  grasps  the 
patient's  wrists  and  raises  the  arms  slowly  but  strongly  high 
above  the  head,  pressing  hard  with  the  knee  and  lowering 
the  arms  with  a  backward  motion  (see  cut  2,  page  29). 

Instant  relief  is  often  felt  after  the  first  treatment,  and 
a  continuation  of  the  treatment  seldom  fails  to  effect  a  cure. 
Coughs,  colds  on  the  lungs,  short,  difficult  breathing,  and 
pleurisy  never  fail  to  respond  quickly  to  our  asthma  treat- 
ment. Of  the  numerous  cases  treated  by  us  in  this  manner 
90  per  cent  have  been  cured  and  all  benefited. 


Cut  2. 


OSTEOPATHY.  3! 

CONSUMPTION. 

Symptoms. 

The  special  symptoms  are  a  short  and  tickling  cough; 
the  pain  in  the  chest  is  slight,  arid  there  is  either  a  sense  of 
tenderness  or  weight  experienced  at  the  upper  part  of  the 
lungs;  the  breathing  is  habitually  short,  and  a  full  inspira- 
tion is  impracticable,  the  attempt  increasing  the  sense  of 
weight  and  soreness  or  aggravating  the  cough;  the  expecto- 
rations are  generally  scanty  and  small  in  quantity  in  the 
early  stages,  and  in  many  cases  are  very  trifling  throughout; 
the  matter  expectorated  is  watery  and  whey-like,  sometimes 
tinged  with  blood,  and  as  the  disease  progresses  thick,  tena- 
cious, curdy,  or  cheesey  particles  are  excreted.  As  the 
functional  powers  of  the  lungs  become  impaired  the  pulse 
becomes  frequent  and  feeble,  the  breathing  grows  shorter; 
irregular  chills  come  on,  succeeded  by  some  degree  of  feverish 
heat,  and  in  the  last  stages  night-sweats,  diarrhea,  swelling 
of  the  limbs,  etc.,  denote  the  rapidly  approaching  fatal  termi- 
nation. The  local  condition  of  the  part  diseased  is  one  of 
engorgement,  and  its  secretions  are  changed  from  a  healthy 
to  a  morbid  condition. 

It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  cold  will  contract  not  only 
iron  and  steel,  but  the  muscles  of  the  human  body.  To  prove 
our  theory  is  correct,  allow  a  cold  draught  of  air  to  strike  the 
neck  for  a  short  time,  and  possibly  the  next  morning  you 
have  a  stiff  neck.  Why  is  it  that  the  head  does  not  turn 
freely  on  its  axis?  Because  the  muscles  that  were  exposed 
have  contracted  and  are  a  little  too  short.  Acting  on  these 
principles,  we  trace  consumption  to  the  contracted  muscles 
of  the  chest,  which  are  forcing  the  elastic  ribs  down  upon 
the  pleura  and  lungs.  The  old  idea  is  that  as  the  lungs  decay 
the  ribs  settle.  How  absurd  to  imagine  that  the  soft,  spongy 
lungs  support  the  chest!  As  well  say  that  a  house  full  of 
sponges  would  hold  up  the  roof. 


32  OSTEOPATHY. 

We  have  established  the  fact,  beyond  the  shadow  of  a 
doubt,  that  it  is  the  steady  pressure  of  the  contracting  mus- 
cles that  causes  this  dread  disease,  and  experience  has  taught 
us  that  until  tuberculosis  sets  in  it  can  be  cured. 

Consumption  Treatment. 

Give  our  asthma  treatment,  working  down  as  low  as 
the  eighth  rib,  as  shown  in  cut  1,  also  giving  the  treatment 
as  shown  in  cut  2,  using  great  care  to  exert  as  much  strength 
as  the  patient  can  stand  without  much  inconvenience.  In 
treating  consumption,  besides  our  regular  asthma  and  con- 
sumption treatment,  we  usually  give  a  general  treatment 
of  the  spine,  to  tone  up  the  system  and  equalize  the  cir- 
culation. 

General  Treatment  of  Spine. 

Place  the  patient  on  the  right  side,  facing  the  operator, 
his  left  arm  flexed,  the  elbow  resting  on  the  right  arm  of  the 
operator,  pressing  against  the  humerus,  thus  making  a  lever 
of  the  patient's  arm  to  stretch  the  muscles  of  the  shoulder 
and  scapula  (shoulder-blade).  The  patient  must  allow  his 
muscles  to  relax  as  much  as  possible.  The  operator  will  now 
place  his  hands  in  the  position  shown  in  cut  3,  page  33.  With 
the  finger-ends  close  to  the  spine,  pressing  quite  hard,  using 
the  arm  as  a  lever,  with  a  circular  motion  move  the  muscles 
under  the  hand  toward  the  head. 

Do  not  let  the  hands  slip  on  the  spine,  as  that  would  be 
simply  rubbing.  Our  object  is  to  loosen  and  stretch  the 
muscles,  thus  freeing  the  vital  forces  of  life  from  any  obstruc- 
tion and  equalizing  the  circulation.  After  each  upward 
motion,  move  the  hands  down  one  inch,  keeping  close  to  the 
spine  and  working  deep  the  entire  length  of  the  spinal  col- 
umn. The  left  side  will  now  be  treated  in  a  like  manner.  It 
should  not  take  over  fifteen  minutes  to  give  the  entire  treat- 
ment, and  the  effect  on  the  patient  is  simply  wonderful. 


CutS. 


—3— 


OSTEOPATHY.  35 

All  manipulation  must  be  slow,  careful,  and  strong. 
The  patient  can  usually  be  relied  upon  to  caution  the  operator 
if  too  much  strength  is  being  used.  A  thorough  treatment 
every  other  day  is  often  enough,  as  Nature  must  be  given  a 
chance  to  do  her  part.  Light  cases  of  lung  trouble  can  be 
cured  in  two  weeks  by  this  treatment,  and  the  most  stubborn 
in  from  six  to  ten. 

BRONCHITIS. 

Symptoms. 

This  disease  is  attended  with  more  or  less  suffocation 
and  spasmodic  respiration.  The  disease  commences  with 
more  or  less  cough,  irritation  about  the  throat,  sense  of  tight- 
ness in  the  chest,  and  shortness  of  breath,  which  do  not  for 
a  considerable  time  attract  a.ttention.  The  first  difficulty 
generally  noticed  as  of  importance  is  a  sense  of  roughness, 
with  frequent  attempts  to  clear  the  throat,  accompanied 
with  or  followed  by  titillation  of  the  larynx,  exciting  a  dry, 
hard  cough.  These  are,  after  a  longer  or  shorter  period, 
succeeded  by  some  hoarseness  of  voice,  with  a  sense  of  tight- 
ness across  the  chest,  and  sometimes  a  slight  pain  or  diffused 
soreness  upon  coughing  or  inflating  the  lungs  fully  by  a 
prolonged  and  deep  inspiration.  All  the  causes  of  consump- 
tion under  modified  circumstances  produce  this  form  of  pul- 
monary disease. 

Treatment. 

Bronchitis  being  a  modified  form  of  consumption,  our 
asthma  and  consumption  treatment  (page  27)  is  especially 
applicable,  giving  immediate  relief,  and  in  from  two  to  six 
weeks  effecting  a  permanent  cure.  Treatment  is  to  be  given 
every  other  day. 


36  OSTEOPATHY. 

DIPHTHERIA. 

Symptoms. 

Diphtheria  is  divisible  into  two  forms,  simple  and  ma- 
lignant. In  the  simple  variety,  happily  the  most  common, 
the  symptoms  are  at  first  so  mild  as  to  excite  little  complaint 
beyond  a  slight  difficulty  of  swallowing  or  pain  in  the  throat, 
burning  skin,  pains  in  the  limbs,  etc. 

Malignant  diphtheria  is  ushered  in  with  severe  fever, 
rigors,  vomiting  or  purging,  sudden  great  prostration  and 
restlessness,anxious  coimtenance,etc., pointing  to  some  over- 
whelming disease  under  which  the  system  is  laboring.  The 
skin  is  hot,  the  face  flushed,  the  throat  sore,  and  the  mucous 
membrane  of  the  throat  bright  red;  the  tonsils  are  swollen, 
and  gray  or  white  patches  of  deposit  appear  on  them,  small 
at  first,  but  gradually  enlarging,  so  that  one  patch  merges 
into  another,  forming  a  false  membrane  in  the  throat,  render- 
ing swallowing  and  even  breathing  difficult;  in  some  cases 
the  false  membrane  has  been  detached  and  after  extreme 
effort  ejected,  presenting  nearly  an  exact  mold  of  the  throat. 
The  exudation  of  diphtheria  may  be  distinguished  from  a 
slough  by  its  easily  crumbling,  by  the  facility  with  which  it 
can  often  be  detached,  and  by  the  surface  thus  exposed  being 
red,  but  not  ulcerated.  The  glands  of  the  neck  are  always 
enlarged ;  sometimes  pain  is  felt  in  the  ear,  and  there  is  gen- 
erally stiffness  of  the  neck. 

As  the  disease  progresses,  the  patient  passes  into  a 
stupor,  and  the  difficulty  of  swallowing  or  breathing  increases 
till  the  false  membrane  is  ejected,  or  the  patient  dies  from 
suffocation,  or  he  sinks  from  exhaustion  similar  to  that 
observed  in  typhoid  fever. 

Dangerous  symptoms  are  a  quick,  feeble,  or  very  slow 
pulse,  persistent  vomiting,  drowsiness,  delirium,  suppressed 
urine,  and  bleeding  from  the  nose.  Diphtheria  is  caused  by 


Cut  4. 


OSTEOPATHY. 


39 


a  contraction  of  the  muscles  of  the  neck  and  thorax,  as  well 
as  by  a  contraction  of  the  muscles  of  respiration,  which,  inter- 
fering with  the  circulation  of  the  fluids  of  the  body,  cause 
the  inflamed  condition  of  the  larynx,  bronchial  tubes,  and 
throat.  Diphtheria,  even  in  its  most  malignant  form,  suc- 
cumbs to  the  following  treatment. 

Diphtheria  Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  the  back,  with  one  hand  under 
the  chin,  the  other  under  the  back  of  the  head;  pull  gently, 
rotating  the  head  from  side  to  side  (cut  4). 

2d.  Pull  slowly  and  strongly  until  the  body  moves, 
without  rotating  the  head. 

3d.  With  the  fingers,  beginning  under  the  chin,  move 
all  the  muscles  of  the  neck  from  side  to  side. 

4th.  Place  the  finger  in  patient's  mouth  and  move  the 
muscles  of  the  throat  gently;  this  loosens  the  membrane, 
which  usually  will  be  immediately  expelled. 

5th.  With  one  hand  draw  the  arm  high  above  the  head ; 
at  the  same  instant,  with  the  fingers  of  the  other  between 
the  spine  and  scapula  at  its  upper  border,  press  firmly  on  the 
angle  of  the  rib,  lower  the  arm  with  a  backward  motion, 
move  the  fingers  one  inch  down  the  spine,  draw  up  the  arm, 
and  repeat  until  the  lower  border  of  the  scapula  is  reached. 
Treat  the  other  side  in  a  similar  manner. 

Gth.  Place  the  arms  around  patient's  body,  the  fingers 
meeting  at  the  spine  immediately  below  the  last  ribs,  and, 
while  pressing  with  the  fingers  on  each  side  of  the  spine, 
raise  the  patient's  body  slowly  and  gently  until  only  the  hips 
and  shoulders  rest  on  the  bed;  this  should  be  repeated  two  or 
three  times,  moving  the  hands  two  or  three  inches  each  time 
toward  the  head;  it  will  instantly  stop  all  purging  and 
vomiting. 

7th.     Place  one  hand  on  each  side  of  the  neck,  the  fingers 


40  OSTEOPATHY. 

• 

almost  meeting  below  the  occipital  bone  (see  cut  5);  press 
gently  for  two  or  three  minutes.  It  is  here  you  reach  nerves 
that  control  the  caliber  of  the  arteries,  thus  slowing  the 
action  of  the  heart. 

Diphtheria  in  its  most  malignant  form  has  never,  in  our 
experience,  failed  to  yield  readily  to  this  treatment,  instant 
relief  being  experienced  and  a  complete  cure  effected  in  a 
very  few  days.  Treatment  should  be  given  every  six  hours, 
and  the  vaso-motor  center  (cut  5)  may  be  held  at  any  time, 
as  it  always  gives  relief. 

MEMBRANEOUS  CROUP. 

Symptoms. 

Fretf ulness,  feverishness,  cold  in  the  head,  and  slight 
hoarseness,  increasing  towards  evening  and  in  the  early 
night.  Sometimes,  however,  without  a  single  warning  symp- 
tom, the  child  startles  us  in  the  night  with  a  hoarse,  ringing 
cough,  which  cannot  be  so  described  as  to  be  recognized,  but 
which  no  one  who  has  ever  heard  it  can  fail  to  know  again. 
There  is  a  sense  of  suffocation,  a  hurried,  hoarse,  and  hissing 
breathing,as  if  the  air  were  drawn  into  the  lungs  and  expelled 
through  too  small  an  opening  in  some  instrument,  which 
is  the  fact,  for  such  an  instrument  is  the  accumulated  phlegm 
in  the  larynx.  When  there  is  much  fever  and  inflammation, 
the  tendency  to  the  formation  of  false  membrane  is  very 
slight;  whereas,  in  cases  that  seem  mild  at  the  beginning  the 
disease  often  passes  to  the  membraneous  stage  unsuspected. 

Treatment. 

Our  diphtheria  treatment  (page  39)  will  give  instant 
relief,  and  a  permanent  cure  in  a  few  days  if  the  treatment 
is  continued.  A  treatment  should  be  given  upon  retiring 
each  night  until  all  symptoms  have  entirely  disappeared. 


CutS. 


OSTEOPATHY. 


NURSING  SORE  MOUTH. 


43 


Symptoms. 

This  is  an  affection  from  which  nursing  women  occasion- 
ally suffer.  It  consists  of  inflammation  of  the  lining  of  the 
mouth,  which  is  covered  with  very  small  ulcers;  these  cause 
a  stinging  and  burning  sensation,  and  cheese-like  matter 
exudes  from  them;  a  profuse  flow  of  saliva  is  also  frequently 
present. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Place  one  hand  under  the  chin,  the  other  under  the 
back  of  the  head  (cut  4);  pull  gently,  rotating  the  head,  en- 
deavoring to  move  and  stretch  all  the  muscles  of  the  neck, 
thus  freeing  the  circulation,  which  is  at  fault. 

2d.  With  the  fingers,  beginning  close  under  the  chin, 
move  all  the  muscles  very  deep,  but  gently,  the  entire  length 
of  the  front  of  the  neck.  This  simple  treatment  in  a  few 
days  will  cure  any  case  of  nursing  sore  mouth.  Treatment 
should  be  given  each  day. 

PUTRID  SORE  THROAT. 

Symptoms. 

This  disease  generally  affects  the  glands  of  the  throat, 
while  the  common  quinsy  affects  the  mucous  membrane.  In 
putrid  sore  throat  there  are  also  canker  sores  and  ulcers  in 
1  lie  throat,  together  with  great  debility  of  the  system.  In 
inflammatory  sore  throat  there  is  always  great  difficulty  of 
swallowing,  whereas  in  the  other  these  symptoms  are  not 
present. 

Treatment. 

This  disease  being  caused  by  a  contraction  of  the  mus- 
cles of  the  neck,  obstructing  the  blood  in  the  returning  veins, 
which,  becoming:  putrid,  works  its  way  to  the  surface,  forming 


44 


OSTEOPATHY. 


sores  and  inflammation  in  the  mucous  membrane  lining  the 
throat,  can  be  easily  and  quickly  cured  by  our  nursing  sore 
mouth  treatment  (page  43).  Treatment  should  be  given 
each  day. 

CEREBRO-SP1NAL  MENINGITIS. 

Symptoms. 

Acute  or  excruciating  pains  in  the  head,  throbbing  of 
the  temporal  and  carotid  arteries,  flushed  face,  eyes  injected 
and  brilliantly  reddish,  contracted  pupils,  and  a  wild  ex- 
pression of  countenance  characterize  the  disease  when  fully 
formed.  These  symptoms  are  preceded  by  various  cerebral 
and  febrile  disturbances — sometimes  violent  delirium,  at 
other  times  nausea  and  vomiting  or  general  convulsions. 
The  bowrels  are  usually  extremely  costive;  there  is  also  great 
intolerance  of  light  and  sound  and  incessant  watchfulness; 
the  skin  is  dry  and  hot,  the  pulse  hard  and  quick,  the  tongue 
dry  and  covered  with  a  white  fur,  and  there  is  intense  thirst. 

Cause  of  Cerebro- Spinal  Meningitis. 

Cerebro-spinal  meningitis,  which  carries  thousands  to 
an  untimely  grave  each  year,  yields  readily  to  this  method  of 
treatment.  So  simple  is  the  treatment,  and  so  plainly  will 
\vc  place  it  before  the  public,  that  a  child  can  treat  it  under- 
standingly  and  successfully,  thus  robbing  that  dread  malady 
of  at  least  half  its  terrors.  It  was  the  loss  of  four  of  his 
children  by  this  disease  that  turned  the  thoughts  of  Andrew 
T.  Still,  that  deep  thinker  and  wonderful  reasoner,  toward 
the  fundamental  principles  of  this  science,  which  is  certain 
to  revolutionize  the  medical  world.  After  years  of  study, 
the  good  doctor  discovered  that  the  muscles  which  attach  to 
and  bind  together  (in  connection  with  the  ligaments)  the 
spinal  vertebrae  were  contracted,  thus  throwing  an  undue 


OSTEOPATHY.  45 

pressure  on  the  intervertebral  substance  and  interfering 
not  only  with  the  nerve-supply,  but  with  the  circulation  of 
the  cord  itself;  and,  for  the  tirst  time  looking  on  man  as  a 
machine,  applied  the  only  rational  remedy. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  his  back,  and,  while  gently- 
rotating  the  head  from  side  to  side,  stretch  the  muscles  of 
the  neck  in  all  directions  (cut  4),  using  increased  strength 
as  the  patient  becomes  accustomed  to  the  motion. 

2d.  With  one  hand  under  the  patient's  chin,  the  other 
under  the  back  of  his  head,  pull  gently  and  gradually 
stronger  until  you  move  the  body.  It  is  well  to  treat  the 
entire  length  of  the  spine  as  shown  in  cut  3,  after  which 
hold  the  vaso-motor  center  (cut  5).  (The  vaso-motor  is  a 
nervous  center  which  controls  the  caliber  of  the  arteries, 
and  can  be  reached  by  a  pressure  on  the  four  upper  cervical 
vertebrae;  from  this  point  we  control  even  the  action  of  the 
heart.)  Place  one  hand  under  each  side  of  the  neck  (stand- 
ing at  the  patient's  side)  until  the  fingers  nearly  meet,  cover- 
ing a  space  from  the  head  down  the  neck  the  breadth  of  four 
fingers;  press  gently,  and  in  a  few  minutes  your  patient  will 
be  resting  easy.  Treatment  should  be  given  every  six  hours, 
and  the  vaso-motor  center  may  be  held  at  any  time  to  give 
relief.  This,  in  hundreds  of  cases,  has  never  been  known 
to  fail,  even  when  death  seemed  very  near;  and,  when  taken 
in  time,  we  would  as  soon  treat  a  case  of  cerebro-spinal 
meningitis  as  a  hard  cold. 


46  OSTEOPATHY. 

PALSY  (PARALYSIS). 

Symptoms. 

Palsy  is  a  disease  principally  affecting  the  nervous 
system,  characterized  by  a  loss  or  diminution  of  motion  or 
fooling  or  of  both  in  one  or  more  parts  of  the  body.  When 
one  entire  side  of  the  body  from  the  head  downward  is 
affected,  it  is  distinguished  among  professional  men  by  the 
name  of  hemiplegia;  if  the  lower  half  of  the  body  be  attacked 
by  the  disease,  it  is  named  paraplegia;  and  when  confined  to 
a  particular  limb  or  set  of  muscles,  it  is  called  paralysis. 
Palsy  usually  comes  on  with  a  sudden  and  immediate  loss  of 
motion  and  sensibility  of  the  parts.  It  is  sometimes  pre- 
ceded by  a  numbness,  coldness,  and  paleness,  and  some- 
times by  slight  convulsive  twitches.  When  the  head  is 
much  affected,  the  eye  and  mouth  are  drawn  on  one  side,  the 
memory  and  judgment  are  much  impaired,  and  the  speech 
indistinct;  if  the  extremities  are  affected,  it  not  only  produces 
a  loss  of  motion  and  sensibility,  but  a  wasting  of  the  muscles 
of  the  affected  parts.  The  attack  is  usually  preceded  by 
some  of  these  symptoms,  but  occasionally  the  disease  ad- 
vances more  slowly;  a  finger,  hand,  or  arm,  or  the  muscles 
of  the  tongue,  of  the  mouth,  or  of  the  eyelids,  being  first 
affected. 

Cause  of  Paralysis. 

Paralysis  in  its  various  forms,  while  stubborn,  can  in- 
variably be  cured  by  our  method  if  taken  in  time,  and  even 
in  its  last  stages  great  good  may  be  done  the  patient. 
Osteopathy  is  the  only  rational  method  of  treating  this 
disease.  It  is  caused  by  a  pressure  on  some  of  the  various 
nerve-centers,  or  paralysis  of  any  part  may  be  caused  by 
pressure  on  the  nerves  which  control  that  part.  The  brain, 
cerebro-spdnal  cord,  and  nerves  may  justly  be  compared 


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47 


to  an  immense  telegraph  system,  the  nerves  carrying  mes- 
sages to  and  from  the  brain. 

That  the  average  reader  may  have  a  more  correct  under- 
standing of  the  nervous  system,  of  the  power  which  causes 
the  heart  to  beat,  the  blood  to  flow,  the  lungs  to  inhale,  the 
alimentary  canal  to  perform  its  allotted  task,  and  the 
muscles  to  act,  let  us  dwell  for  a  moment  on  the  brain,  the 
spinal  cord,  and  the  vertebral  or  spinal  column,  as  it  is  on 
this  line  of  thought  that  we  must  reach  paralysis. 

The  nervous  system  is  composed— 

First:  Of  a  series  of  large  centers  of  nerve-matter, 
called  collectively  the  cerebro-spinal  center  or  axis. 

Second:    Of  smaller  centers,  called  ganglia. 

Third:  Nerves  connected  either  with  the  cerebro-spinal 
axis  or  ganglia ;  and 

Fourth:  Of  certain  modifications  of  the  peripheral 
terminations  of  the  nerves,  forming  the  organs  of  external 
sense. 

The  cerebro-spinal  center  consists  of  two  parts,  the 
spinal  cord  and  encephalon  or  brain;  the  latter  may  be  sub- 
divided into  the  cerebrum  and  cerebellum,  the  pons  varolii 
and  the  medulla  oblongata. 

The  spine  is  a  flexible  and  flexous  column,  composed  of 
thirty-three  separate  and  distinct  bones  in  the  child,  and 
twenty-six  in  the  adult,  articulating  with  each  other  and  the 
ribs,  enclosing  and  protecting  the  spinal  cord,  supporting  the 
head  and  trunk,  and  permitting  the  escape  through  its 
numerous  foramina  of  the  nerves  which  control  the  body. 
Is  not  this  indeed  a  grand  and  wonderful  piece  of  mechan- 
ism? So  strong,  so  delicate,  so  perfect! 

It  is  to  this  part  of  the  human  machinery  that  we  trace 
half  the  ills  that  flesh  is  heir  to.  It  is  here  that  we  find 
centers  on  which  a  simple  pressure  of  the  hand  will  instantly 


48  OSTEOPATHY. 

cure  cholera  morbus,  flux,  cramp  in  the  stomach,  vomiting. 
('((•.,  and  it  is  here  we  must  search  for  the  cause  and  cure  of 
paralysis. 

How  to  Make  the  Examination. 

Place  the  patient  on  his  face  and  carefully  examine  the 
spine;  in  perfect  health  the  vertebra?  are  all  in  line.  If  you 
find  one  of  the  spinous  processes  a  little  out  of  line,  you 
have  discovered  the  cause.  It  may  be  the  result  of  an 
accident,  it  may  be  turned  slightly  out  of  its  normal  position 
by  a  contracted  muscle;  be  that  as  it  may,  we  have  here  a 
pressure  on  the  spinal  cord,  causing  partial  or  complete 
paralysis. 

Paralysis  Treatment. 

1st.  Free  the  muscles  thoroughly  (as  shown  in  cut  ?>) 
on  each  side  of  the  spine  the  entire  length,  particularly  ;il 
the  seat  of  trouble. 

2d.  Let  one  assistant  now  take  the  patient's  shoulders, 
another  his  feet,  and  pull  steadily,  slowly,  and  strongly, 
while  the  third  presses  the  spinous  process  back  in  its  place. 
It  may  take  several  treatments,  but  you  will  gain  a  little 
every  time  and  finally  succeed.  There  is  absolutely  no 
danger  connected  with  this  treatment  if  ordinary  care  is 
used. 

3d.  Place  the  patient  on  his  back,  and,  with  one  hand 
under  the  chin  and  the  other  under  the  back  of  the  head,  pull 
steadily  until  the  body  moves.  This  must  not  be  omitted,  as 
it  starts  up  circulation  in  the  spinal  cord,  and  even  reaches 
the  brain. 

4th.     Kaise  the  arms  and  ribs  as  in  cut  1,  page  25. 

5th.  Treat  the  limbs  for  circulation  and  to  stretch  the 
great  sciatic,  the  largest  nerve  in  the  body,  measuring  three- 
quarters  of  an  inch  in  breadth,  and  which  is  the  continuation 


4— 


OSTEOPATHY.  5I 

of  the  lower  part  of  the  sacral  plexus;  it  passes  out  of  the 
pelvis  through  the  great  sacro-sciatic  foramen  below  the 
pyriformis  muscle  and  descends  between  the  great  trochan- 
ter  and  the  tuberosity  of  the  ischium,  along  the  back  of  the 
thigh,  to  about  its  middle  third,  where  it  divides  into  two 
large  branches,  the  internal  and  external  popliteal  nerves. 
To  stretch  the  sciatic  nerve,  place  the  patient  on  his  back, 
stand  at  the  side  of  the  table,  and  grasp  with  the  right  hand 
the  right  ankle,  your  left  hand  resting  lightly  on  the  patient's 
knee;  now  flex  the  leg  slowly  against  the  abdomen  as  far  as 
possible,  using  as  much  strength  as  the  patient  can  stand 
(see  cut  (>).  While  in  this  position  move  the  knee  three  or 
four  times  from  right  to  left,  without  relaxing  the  pressure; 
now  slowly  extend  the  leg,  throwing  the  knee  to  the  right, 
the  foot  to  the  left,  as  shown  in  cut  7.  This  should  be  re- 
peated two  or  three  times,  and  be  reversed  occasionally, 
throwing  the  knee  to  the  left  and  the  foot  to  the  right.  Treat 
the  left  limb  in  a  similar  manner.  A  treatment  should  not 
occupy  over  fifteen  minutes,  and  should  be  given  every  day. 
This  treatment  will  benefit  and  usually  cure  paralysis  in 
any  of  its  varied  forms.  If  no  dislocation  is  found,  give  the 
same  treatment,  as  you  may  have  overlooked  it,  and  simply 
stretching  the  body  will  allow  a  very  slight  dislocation  to 
slip  back  and  free  the  cerebro-spinal  cord. 

Of  the  numerous  cases  of  paralysis  successfully  treated 
by  us,  we  might  mention  a  little  girl  at  Benjamin,  northeast- 
ern Missouri.  She  had  been  a  bright,  active  child  until  two 
weeks  before  she  was  brought  to  us  for  treatment,  when  it 
was  noticed  that  she  was  losing  the  use  of  her  lower  limbs. 
We  explained  to  the  mother  the  cause  of  the  trouble,  a  slip 
in  the  lumbar  vertebrie  throwing  a  pressure  on  the  spinal 
cord,  thus  partially  cutting  off  communication  between  the 
limbs  and  the  brain.  Her  old  family  doctor  insisted  that  the 
child  had  worms,  and  treated  her  for  the  same  for  four 


52  OSTEOPATHY. 

weeks,  when  the  little  sufferer  had  entirely  lost  the  use  of 
her  lower  extremities;  he  turned  her  over  to  us  with  the 
remark  that  he  did  not  understand  the  case.  After  four 
treatments  as  laid  down  in  this  work,  the  child  could  walk, 
and  in  three  weeks  was  romping  with  her  playmates. 

We  will  refer  also  to  the  ease  of  a  .young  lady  of  Galena, 
Kansas,  suffering  from  creeping  paralysis,  or  locornotor 
ataxy.  This  dread  malady  is  caused  by  a  diseased  condition 
of  the  posterior  column  of  the  spinal  cord,  and  our  treatment, 
stretching  and  rotating  the  spine  thoroughly,  frees  the  cord 
and  starts  the  circulation.  The  young  lady  in  question  was 
not  onty  perfectly  helpless,  but  her  digestive  organs  and 
kidneys  failed  to  act.  In  connection  with  our  usual  paraly- 
sis treatment,  we  gave  the  kidney  and  constipation  treatment 
(see  page  69).  In  a  short  time  the  lady  could  walk  with 
assistance,  and  in  two  months  was  on  the  high  road  to 
perfect  health. 

ATROPHY  (SHRINKING  OF  MUSCLES). 

Atrophy  of  any  part  might  well  be  mentioned  at  this 
time,  it  being  a  form  of  paralysis.  It  will  be  remembered 
that  we  mentioned  the  fact  of  the  nerves  controlling  the 
caliber  of  the  arteries,  thus  regulating  the  blood-supply.  In 
atrophy  we  are  confronted  with  a  condition  in  which  the 
nerves  controlling  the  arteries  which  feed  the  withered 
parts  are  interfered  with.  The  wires  are  down  and  the  cry 
of  hunger  from  the  starving  muscles  never  reaches  the 
brain. 

But  even  assuming  that  the  brain  is  apprised  of  the 
fact  that  certain  muscles  are  starving,  that  they  need  more 
blood,  its  message  to  the  arteries  to  expand  never  reaches  its 
destination.  If  it  is  the  muscles  of  the  leg  that  are  starving, 
why  not  flex  the  leg  upon  the  abdomen  (see  cut  6,  page  50), 


/ 


Cut  7. 


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rotating  it  inward  and  outward,  thereby  stretching  the  mus- 
cles and  freeing  and  stretching  the  nerves  at  fault?  We 
have  absolutely  never  known  this  method  to  fail  to  restore 
shrinking  limbs  to  their  normal  size.  We  have  cured  case 
after  case  by  this  simple,  reliable  and  infallible  method, 
and  there  is  no  reason  why  any  of  our  readers  should  not  be 
equally  successful  in  cases  not  complicated. 

A  good  general  rule  in  all  cases  of  atrophy  of  the  mus- 
cles is  to  use  the  affected  member  as  a  lever  with  which  to 
stretch  the  muscles  connecting  it  to  the  body  in  all  possible 
directions,  as  it  is  here  the  obstruction  is  usually  found,  and 
by  acting  on  these  principles  you  will  unwittingly  stretch 
the  right  muscle,  thus  freeing  the  nerve  and  permitting  the 
blood  to  pass  down  and  nourish  the  affected  parts.  It  is 
simply  wonderful  how  quick  Nature  will  respond.  If  a 
measurement  of  the  shrunken  member  is  taken,  you  will 
know  exactly  how  fast  you  are  progressing;  and  I  venture 
the  assertion  that  in  one  month,  giving  a  treatment  every 
other  day,  you  will  have  gained  from  one  to  two  inches. 

One  old  gentleman  treated  by  us  in  Baxter  Springs, 
Kansas,  whose  leg  had  been  shrunken  for  years,  grew  an 
inch  and  a  half  in  one  month's  treatment,  measured 
around  the  ankle.  Another,  a  young  man  of  the  same  city, 
had  his  arm  restored  to  usefulness  in  the  same  remarkable 
yet  simple  manner.  We  would  not  be  understood  as  saying 
the  limb  will  gain  much  in  length  in  the  adult;  the  great 
improvement  will  be  noticed  in  size  and  strength. 

DYSENTERY,  OR  BLOODY  FLUX. 

Symptoms. 

Dysentery  usually  commences  with  severe  pains  in  the 
bowels,  with  frequent  inclination  to  go  to  stool;  the  stools 
are  small  in  quantity  and  sometimes  mixed  with  blood. 


55  OSTEOPATHY. 

There  is  generally  a  peculiar. sensation  of  bearing  down  while 
at  stool,  as  if  the  whole  bowels  were  falling  out,  accompanied 
with  considerable  pain.  Sometimes  chills  and  fever  precede 
the  symptoms;  in  other  cases  they  either  accompany  them 
or  soon  follow,  if  the  attack  is  at  all  severe.  Griping  pains 
in  the  abdomen,  followed  by  discharges  from  the  bowels, 
are  the  first  prominent  symptoms. 

CHOLERA  MORBUS. 

Symptoms. 

Cholera  morbus  is  a  violent  purging  and  vomiting,  at- 
tended with  gripes  and  a  constant  desire  to  go  to  stool.  It 
comes  on  suddenly,  and  is  most  common  in  autumn.  There 
is  hardly  any  disease  that  kills  more  quickly  than  this  when 
proper  means  are  not  used  in  due  time  for  removing  it.  It 
is  generally  preceded  by  heartburn,  sour  belchings,  and 
flatulence,  with  pain  in  the  stomach  and  intestines;  to  these 
succeed  excessive  vomiting  and  purging  of  green,  yellow, 
or  blackish  colored  bile,  with  distention  of  the  stomach  and 
violent  griping  pains.  There  is  likewise  great  thirst,  with 
a  very  quick  unequal  pulse,  and  often  a  fixed  acute  pain 
about  the  region  of  the  navel.  As  the  disease  advances,  the 
pulse  often  sinks  so  low  as  to  become  quite  imperceptible; 
the  extremities  grow  cold  or  cramped  and  are  often  covered 
with  a  clammy  sweat,  the  urine  is  obstructed,  and  there  is 
palpitation  of  the  heart.  Violent  hiccoughing,  fainting, 
and  convulsions  are  the  signs  of  approaching  death. 

Cause  of  Flux  and  Cholera  Morbus. 

Flux  and  cholera  morbus  can  be  cured  instantly.  Of 
the  hundreds  of  cases  treated  by  us,  we  have  yet  to  find  the 
first  that  did  not  respond  instantly,  and  we  stand  ready  to 


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wager  our  reputation  that  there  never  was  and  never  will  be 
a  case  of  either  of  these  diseases  that  cannot  be  cured  by 
this  method  of  treatment  if  properly  applied.  This  may 
justly  be  considered  the  grandest  discovery  of  this  or  any 
other  age.  And  we  beg  the  medical  fraternity  throughout 
our  land,  who  usually  look  with  eyes  of  skepticism  on  any- 
thing out  of  the  ordinary,  to  try  this  one  great  principle,which 
is  destined  to  save  thousands  of  lives  each  year.  We  trust 
that  each  and  every  one  who  may  chance  to  read  these  pages 
will  remember  our  treatment  for  flux.  Not  because  it  is  more 
reliable  than  any  other  great  principle  laid  down  in  this 
work,  but  it  is  so  simple  and  of  such  vast  importance  in 
times  of  need,  so  infallible,  and  gives  such  immediate  relief. 

That  the  reader  may  gain  a  correct  understanding  of 
this  great  principle,  we  will  return  to  the  anatomy,  to  the 
machinery  of  human  life.  Once  more  comparing  the  cerebro- 
spinal  cord, the  brain, and  the  nerves  to  a  telegraphic  system, 
we  will  trace  the  cause  of  flux  and  the  excited  condition  of 
the  digestive  organs  directly  to  the  brain.  It  will  be  wise, 
in  this  connection,  as  some  of  our  readers  may  not  be  very 
familiar  with  anatomy  and  physiology,  to  sketch  briefly  the 
process  of  digestion. 

Food,  when  taken  into  the  mouth,  undergoes  two  proc- 
esses, which  are  inseparable  and  simultaneous  in  action, 
being  mastication  and  insalivation.  In  the  short  time  occu- 
pied by  the  passage  of  the  food  through  the  O3sophagus  no 
special  change  takes  place.  In  the  stomach  the  food  is 
mixed  with  the  juices  of  that  organ,  and  is  converted  into 
chyme.  The  chyme  begins  to  leave  the  stomach  through 
the  pyloric  orfice  soon  after  gastric  digestion  has  begun, 
some  passing  into  the  duodenum  in  about  half  an  hour.  The 
materials  which  resist  gastric  secretion  or  are  affected  very 
slowly  by  it  are  retained  many  hours  in  the  stomach,  and 
the  pylorus  may  refuse  exit  to  such  materials  for  an  indefi- 


5g  OSTEOPATHY. 

nite  length  of  time,  so  that,  after  causing  much  uneasiness, 
they  are  finally  removed  by  vomiting.  Many  solid  masses 
escape  through  the  pylorus,  however,  when  it  opens  to  let 
out  the  chyme. 

The  small  intestine  is  a  convoluted  tube,  varying  in 
length  from  twenty  to  thirty  feet,  which  gradually  dimin- 
ishes in  size  from  its  commencement  to  its  termination.  The 
power  which  forces  the  food  and  chyme  through  this  long 
convoluted  tube  is  called  the  peristaltic  action,  and  is  con- 
trolled by  the  "main  battery,"  the  brain.  A  wave  of  con- 
traction passes  from  the  pylorus  along  the  circular  fibers 
so  as  to  look  like  a  broad  ring  of  constriction,  progressing 
slowly  downward.  The  longitudinal  fibers  at  the  same  time 
contract  so  as  to  shorten  the  piece  of  intestine  immediately 
below  the  ring  of  constriction,  and  also  causes  a  certain 
amount  of  rolling  movement  of  those  loops  of  intestine  which 
are  free  enough  to  move.  In  flux  and  cholera  morbus  this 
peristaltic  action  becomes  increased  to  an  alarming  extent. 
Food  has  been  taken  into  the  stomach,  to  remove  which  a 
great  amount  of  nerve  power  is  required;  and  when  it  is 
finally  expelled,  and  the  current  still  on,  we  have  a  machine 
running  away  with  itself.  We  are  as  yet  unable  to  deter- 
mine the  precise  cause  of  Nature  failing  to  apply  her  brakes 
and  check  the  current  at  the  proper  moment,  but  we  have- 
succeeded  in  locating  the  point  on  which  a  slight  pressure  of 
the  hand  will  instantly  slow  up  the  machine. 

The  great  splanchnic  and  right  pneumogastric  nerves 
form  the  solar  plexus,  or  great  abdominal  brain,  and  control 
the  peristaltic  action  of  the  bowels.  Now  it  is  obvious  that 
a  pressure  on  these  nerves  long  enough  to  break  the  current 
will  check  the  peristaltic  action  of  the  intestines.  The 
pneumogastric  has  a  more  extensive  distribution  than  any 
of  the  other  cranial  nerves.  Passing  through  the  neck  and 
thorax  to  the  upper  part  of  the  abdomen,  it  is  composed  of 


Cut  24. 


OSTEOPATHY.  6 1 

both  motor  and  sensory  fibers.  It  supplies  the  organs  of 
voice  and  respiration  with  motor  and  sensory  fibers,  and 
the  pharynx,  oesophagus,  stomach,  and  heart  with  motor 
fibers.  It  emerges  from  the  cranium  through  the  jugular 
foramen,  passes  vertically  down  the  neck  within  the  sheath 
of  the  carotid  vessels,  lying  between  the  internal  carotid 
artery  and  the  external  jugular  vein  as  far  as  the  thyroid 
cartilage.  Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  it  can  be  reached  by 
a  strong,  steady  pressure  on  the  right  side  of  the  windpipe, 
as  it  is  commonly  called,  in  the  lower  part  of  the  neck.  The 
right  splanchnic  nerve  will  respond  to  a  pressure  close  to  the 
spine  between  the  sixth  and  seventh  ribs. 

While  this  treatment  will  cure  flux  and  cholera  morbus, 
and  was  arrived  at  by  studying  man  as  a  machine  from  a 
scientific  standpoint,  a  much  simpler  method,  producing  the 
same  results,  will  be  given  as  our  infallible  mode  of  treat- 
ing these  diseases. 

Flux  and  Cholera  Morbus  Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  a  stool,  the  operator  standing 
behind.  The  operator  now  places  his  knee  on  the  left  side 
of  the  spine,  just  below  the  last  rib,  grasping  the  patient's 
shoulders,  and  di^aws  him  gently  but  firmly  backward  as  far 
as  possible  (cut  24).  Let  all  motions  be  slow,  allowing  the 
patient  time  to  relax  the  muscles.  Ninety  per  cent  of  all 
cases  will  be  cured  instantly  by  this  one  move.  In  aggra- 
vated cases,  where  the  patient  is  bedfast,  while  lying  on 
the  back  place  one  hand  under  each  side,  the  fingers  pressing 
on  each  side  of  the  spine  just  below  the  last  ribs,  and  two  or 
three  times  slowly  raise  the  patient  until  only  the  shoulders 
and  pelvis  touch  the  bed. 

2d.  Press  lightly  with  the  palm  of  the  hand  on  the 
umbilicus  (and  stronger  as  the  patient  becomes  accustomed 
to  the  pressure)  for  a  minute. 


62  OSTEOPATHY. 

3d.  Hold  the  vaso-motor  center  for  two  or  three  min- 
utes, and  your  patient  is  out  of  danger  (see  cut  5).  It  is 
very  seldom  that  anything  farther  than  one  backward  move- 
ment is  necessary. 

Taken  suddenly  with  cholera  morbus  between  St.  Louis 
and  Kansas  City,  the  writer  cured  himself  instantly  by  bend- 
ing far  backward  over  the  back  of  the  car  seat.  Any  of  our 
readers  can  do  likewise. 

While  on  this  subject,  we  wTill  mention  the  case  of  a  lady 
at  Miami,  I.  T.  We  received  an  urgent  call  from  her  husband 
one  Tuesday  morning,  but,  being  overwhelmed  with  office 
work,  it  seemed  impossible  for  us  to  take  the  time  to  drive 
twenty  miles  into  the  Indian  Nation;  so  it  was  arranged  that 
if  the  drugs  of  the  local  doctors  failed,  and  she  was  still  alive, 
we  should  drive  down  Friday  night.  We  reached  her  bedside 
at  midnight  (Friday  night),  and  found  her  just  alive.  We 
treated  her  once,  and  in  a  week  she  was  walking  on  the  streets 
of  Miami  in  perfect  health. 

CRAMP  IN  THE  BOWELS. 

Cramp  in  the  bowels  is  caused  by  the  too  rapid  action 
of  the  intestines,  one  fold  being  thrown  over  another;  this 
can  usually  be  instantly  cured  by  bending  the  patient  far 
backward  as  in  flux.  In  rare  cases  it  will  be  found  neces- 
sary to  place  the  patient  on  the  back  and  gently  but  firmly 
knead  the  bowels,  working  deep,  thus  freeing  the  parts  and 
giving  immediate  relief. 


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CRAMP  IN  THE  STOMACH  AND  VOMITING. 

Treatment. 

1st.     Bend  the  patient  backward  as  in  flux. 

2d.  Press  steadily  on  the  pit  of  the  stomach  with  the 
palm  of  the  hand  for  a  moment. 

3d.  Place  the  knee  between  the  shoulders,  raising  the 
arms  high  above  the  head  (see  cut  2). 

4th.  Permit  the  patient  to  lie  on  the  back,  and,  reaching 
over  as  in  cut  8,  with  each  of  the  fingers  close  to  the  spine, 
between  and  a  little  below  the  scapulas  (shoulder-blades), 
press  strongly  a  moment,  after  which  hold  the  vaso-motor 
center  (see  cut  5,  page  41). 

This  treatment  will  cure  the  most  aggravated  cases, 
usually  in  a  few  moments.  It  will  be  observed  that  we  are 
working  here  on  the  splanchnic  nerves,  which  are  in  direct 
communication  with  the  stomach. 

CHRONIC  DIARRHEA. 

Symptoms. 

Simple  diarrhea,  remaining  uncured  for  some  time, 
becomes  chronic. 

Treatment. 

Our  flux  and  cholera  morbus  treatment  will  give  im- 
mediate relief,  and,  if  continued  for  from  three  to  six  weeks, 
a  complete  and  permanent  cure.  It  is  rarely  necessary  to 
ask  the  assistance  of  a  friend  in  treating  this  disorder.  Place 
the  thumbs  close  to  the  spine,  one  on  each  side  and  im- 
mediately below  the  last  rib,  and  while  pressing  hard  lean  as 
far  backward  as  possible;  move  the  thumbs  down  one  inch 
and  lean  backward;  repeat  this  until  the  lumbar  vertebra? 
are  reached.  Treatment  should  be  given  once  each  day;  it 

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66  OSTEOPATHY. 

will  take  but  a  moment,  and  has  never  been  known  to  fail. 
Many  cases  have  been  cured  by  us  in  a  few  treatments, 
dating  as  far  back  as  the  late  war. 


CONSTIPATION  AND  TORPID  LIVER. 

Symptoms. 

While  we  admit  that  constipation  is  not  desirable,  and 
may  almost  invariably  be  avoided,  yet  persons  thus  predis- 
posed are  generally  long-lived,  unless  they  commit  suicide 
by  purgative  medicines,  while  those  who  are  subject  to 
frequent  attacks  of  diarrhea  are  soon  debilitated.  A  daily 
action  of  the  bowels  is  no  doubt  desirable  in  most  cases,  but 
by  no  means  invariably  so.  An  evacuation  may  take  place 
daily,  or  every  second  day,  or  even  every  third  day,  in  per- 
sons who  are  equally  healthy.  There  is  no  invariable  rule 
applying  to  all  persons.  Purgation  produced  by  drugs  is 
an  unnatural  condition,  and  although  temporary  relief  often 
follows  the  use  of  aperients,  they  tend  to  disorganize  the 
parts  on  which  their  force  is  chiefly  expended.  The  inles 
tinal  canal  is  not  a  smooth,  hard  tube,  through  which  can  be 
forced  whatever  it  contains  without  injury;  it  is  part  of  a 
living  organism,  and  needs  no  force  to  propel  its  contents  on 
their  way;  nor  can  such  force  be  applied  with  impunity.  Not 
only  does  the  frequent  use  of  purgatives  overstimulate  the 
liver  and  pancreas,  but  also  and  especially  the  numerous 
secretory  glands  which  cover  the  extensive  surface  of  the 
intestinal  canal,  forcing  them  to  pour  out  their  contents  in 
such  excessive  quantities  as  to  weaken  and  impair  their 
functions,  and  so  produce  a  state  of  general  debility.  The 
normal  action  of  the  stomach  and  intestinal  canal  being  thus 
suspended,  nausea,  vomiting,  griping,  and  even  fainting,  are 
produced;  the  brain  and  vital  energies  are  disturbed,  occa- 


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67 


sioning  lowness  of  spirits  and  melancholy,  alternating  witb 
mental  excitement  and  peculiar  irritability  of  temper. 

Cause. 

We  will  now  endeavor  to  prove  to  the  satisfaction  of 
our  readers  that,  viewing  man  as  a  machine,  constipation 
can  be  traced  to  its  true  cause,  and  cured  by  an  application 
of  the  never-failing  principles  of  Osteopathy.  The  digestive 
organs  in  constipation  may  be  compared  to  an  electric  car 
with  the  current  partially  cut  off;  with  a  light  load  it  might 
possibly  work  in  a  feeble,  halting  manner,  while  the  slender 
wire  transmits  the  power  to  move  the  heavy  car.  The 
dynamo  generates  that  power;  break  the  connection,  and  the 
car  stops.  So  is  the  human  being;  the  brain  is  the  great 
generator,  the  center  of  all.  power.  Stop  for  one  instant 
the  current  on  these  slender  nerves,  and  the  heavy  muscles 
of  the  giant  are  weaker  than  those  of  a  tiny  child.  There 
is  one  peculiarity  about  the  nerves  which  is  liable  to  lead 
one  astray,  and  that  is  the  fact  that  a  pressure  on  the  main 
trunk  of  a  nerve  causes  no  pain  at  that  point,  but  at  the  ex- 
tremity ol  the  nerve. 

In  constipation  we  find  the  intercostal  and  spinal  mus- 
cles contracted  from  the  fifth  dorsal  vertebra  and  fifth  rib 
to  the  eighth.  The  sixth  or  seventh  rib  will  be  turned 
slightly,  and  either  the  muscles  or  rib  pressing  on  the 
splanchnic  nerves  (which,  with  the  pneumogastric,  control 
the  abdomen),  thus  depriving  the  intestines  of  half  their 
motor  power.  Taking  physic  for  constipation  is  like  whip- 
ping a  weak,  half-starved  horse.  He  will  go  just  as  long  as 
you  continue  to  apply  the  whip,  but  is  left  in  a  more  enfeebled 
condition  after  each  application  of  the  lash.  Would  it  not 
be  more  human  and  sensible  to  increase  his  feed  and  reduce 
his  load,  as  we  now  propose  doing  with  the  splanchnic 
nerve? 


68  OSTEOPATHY. 

By  relaxing  the  contracted  muscles  we  not  only  allow 
the  ribs  to  spring  buck,  thus  releasing  the  nerve,  but  also 
permit  the  blood  to  pass  down  and  supply  the  nerve  with 
food,  and  in  a  comparatively  short  time  it  will  be  able  to 
once  more  convey  the  current  that  will  start  the  peristaltic 
action  of  the  bowels,  and  also  furnish  a  motor  power  to  the 
sluggish  liver  and  pancreas,  enabling  those  organs  to  resume 
their  work.  As  an  obstruction  to  the  nerve  force  of  the 
splanchnic  system  not  only  weakens  the  peristaltic  action 
of  the  bowels,  but  also  the  action  of  the  liver,  that  great 
chemical  laboratory;  placed  on  the  highway  by  which  the 
great  majority  of  material  absorbed  from  the  intestines 
reaches  the  blood,  it  is  obviously  in  a  position  to  act  as  the 
guardian  of  the  blood's  purity  and  health.  It  certainly  in 
some  respects  performs  this  duty,  for  many  poisons,  when 
and,  if  their  amount  be  not  excessive,  are  elimated  with  the 
bile.  But  we  have  no  reason  to  believe  that  this  enormous 
mass  of  protoplasm  is  placed  in  this  peculiar  position  in  the 
circulation  to  preside  over  much  more  important  duties  than 
that  of  a  mere  gatekeeper.  Many  if  not  all  of  the  absorbed 
materials  are  found  to  be  altered  during  their  visit  to  the 
liver.  In  fact,  we  must  regard  this  organ  as  the  great 
introduced  into  the  digestive  tract,  are  stopped  by  the  liver, 
chemical  laboratory  of  the  blood,  where  many  important 
analyses  are  made.  It  has  an  immense  double  blood-supply; 
it  receives  all  the  blood  of  the  portal  veins  coming  from  the 
digestive  tract  and  spleen.  This  supply  of  blood  varies 
much  in  amount;  after  meals,  it  equals  one-fourth  of  all  the 
blood  in  the  body.  Among  the  many  important  functions 
of  the  liver  are  the  formation  of  the  urea  and  uric  acid  and 
the  secretion  of  the  bile.  Its  failure  to  supply  in  sufficient 
quantities  the  latter  (which  is  mixed  in  the  abdomen  with 
the  pancreatic  juice,  to  assist  in  digesting  the  food)  is  one  of 


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the  secondary  causes  of  constipation;  another  is  the  inability 
of  the  pancreas,  through  lack  of  nerve-force,  to  do  its  part  in 
furnishing  pancreatic  juice.  Thus,  when  we  turn  the  cur- 
rent on  the  splanchnic,  we  start  a  three-horse  team,  which, 
pulling  together  in  perfect  harmony,  will  safely  carry  our 
constipated  friend  to  the  highway  of  perfect  health. 


Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  the  side  and  proceed  to  free 
all  the  muscles  of  the  spine  on  each  side  as  low  as  the 
twelfth  dorsal  vertebra.  Let  the  arm  of  the  patient  rest  on 
that  of  the  operator,  the  patient's  elbow  pressing  against  the 
humerus,  forming  a  lever  with  which  the  muscles  of  the 
scapula  (shoulder-blade)  can  be  manipulated.  With  the 
fingers  between  the  spine  and  scapula,  pressing  hard,  move 
the  scapula  and  muscles  under  the  fingers  upward  (see  cut  3), 
being  particular  not  to  let  the  hand  slip  over  the  muscles, 
but  to  move  them.  After  each  upward  motion,  move  the 
fingers  down  an  inch,  until  the  last  dorsal  vertebra  is 
reached,  taking  care  not  to  work  lower  than  the  last  rib. 

2d.  With  the  patient  lying  on  the  back,  grasp  the 
right  wrist  with  the  right  hand,  drawing  the  arm  slowly  but 
with  some  strength  high  above  the  head,  at  the  same  time 
placing  the  left  hand  between  the  shoulder-blades  on  the 
right  side  of  the  spine,  about  two  inches  below  the  upper 
part  of  the  shoulder-blades,  pressing  hard  as  the  arm  conies 
up;  lower  the:  arm,  the  elbow  passing  below  and  at  1  lie- 
side  of  the  table.  Repeat,  moving  the  hand  down  the  spine 
one  inch  every  time,  until  you  have  reached  the  tenth  dorsal 
vertebra,  which  will  be  found  one  inch  below  the  inferior 
angle  of  the  scapula. 


70  OSTEOPATHY. 

3d.  Knead  the  bowels  (cut  9),  beginning  on  the  right 
side  and  at  the  lower  portion  of  the  abdomen,  close  to  the 
bone,  and  immediately  over  the  ileo-crecal  valve.  Work 
lightly  at  first,  gradually  using  more  strength,  following  the 
ascending  colon  upward  from  its  commencement  at  1he 
crecum  to  the  under  surface  of  the  liver  on  the  right  side  of 
the  gall-bladder,  where  it  bends  abruptly  to  the  left,  forming 
the  hepatic  flexure;  it  now  becomes  the  transverse  colon, 
and  passes  transversely  across  the  abdomen  from  right  to 
left,  where  it  curves  downward  beneath  the  lower  end  of  Ihe 
spleen,  forming  the  splenic  flexure.  The  descending  colon 
passes  almost  vertically  downward  to  the  upper  part  of  the 
left  iliac  fossa,  where  it  terminates  in  the  sigmoid  flexure. 
The  sigmoid  flexure  is  the  narrowest  part  of  the  colon.  It 
is  situated  in  the  left  iliac  fossa,  commencing  at  the  termina- 
tion of  the  descending  colon  at  the  margin  of  the  crest  of 
the  ilium,  and  ending  in  the  rectum  opposite  the  left  sacn. 
iliac  symphysis.  Work  across  the  abdomen,  following  1he 
transverse  colon  and  down  the  descending  and  sigmoid  por- 
tions to  the  rectum.  Next  knead  the  small  intestine,  which 
is  contained  in  the  central  lower  part  of  the  abdominal 
cavity,  surrounded  above  and  at  the  sides  by  the  colon  or 
large  intestine. 

This  treatment  should  be  given  every  other  day,  and  can 
be  administered  in  fifteen  minutes.  It  will  cure  the  most 
stubborn  cases  of  constipation  or  torpid  liver.  Care  should 
be  taken  to  work  as  deep  and  as  far  under  the  ribs  as  pos- 
sible. Children  and  young  people  are  often  cured  in  a 
single  treatment,  but  the  average  time  required  for  a  cure 
is  from  two  to  six  weeks.  In  very  stubborn  cases  it  is  well 
to  flush  the  bowels  once  or  twice,  until  Nature  begins  to  act. 
This  treatment,  if  applied  as  directed,  will  be  found  infallible. 


OSTEOPATHY.  -~ 


DYSPEPSIA  (INDIGESTION). 

Symptoms. 

These  vary  greatly,  both  in  character  and  intensity,  but 
there  is  commonly  one  or  more  of  the  following:  impaired 
appetite,  flatulence,  and  nausea;  eructations,  which  often 
bring  up  bitter  or  acid  fluids;  furred  tongue,  often  flabby, 
large,  or  indented  at  the  sides;  foul  taste  or  breath  and  heart- 
burn; pain  and  a  sensation  of  weight  and  inconvenience  or 
fullness  after  a  meal;  irregular  action  of  the  bowels;  head- 
ache, diminished  mental  energy  and  alertness,  and  dejection 
of  spirits;  palpitation  of  the  heart  or  great  vessels,  and 
various  affections  in  other  organs. 

Cause. 

Dyspepsia,  or  indigestion,  is  usually  caused  by  a  con 
stipated  condition  of  the  bowels,  which,  becoming  over- 
loaded, hinder  the  action  of  the  stomach  until  the  glands  of 
that  organ  become  diseased.  Thus  we  are  again  confronted 
with  the  parallel  of  an  electric  car,  which,  having  lost  its 
current,  obstructs  the  main  track.  We  expect  to  prove  to 
the  intelligent  reader  that  when  the  peristaltic  action  of  the 
small  intestine  loses  part  of  its  nerve-power,  occasioned  by 
a  pressure  on  the  splanchnic  center  at  or  near  the  spine,  the 
foundation  is  laid  not  only  for  constipation,  liver  complaint, 
and  various  stomach  and  kidney  troubles,  but  by  blocking 
the  main  track,  one  organ  after  another  becomes  diseased, 
and  finally  the  stomach,  bloated  or  filled  with  gas,  presses 
so  hard  upon  the  diaphragm,  compressing  the  left  lung,  that 
it  affects  even  the  lungs  and  heart.  Many  cases  of  heart 
trouble  we  have  traced  directly  to  this  cause,  and  cured  by 
working  on  these  never-failing  principles. 


74  OSTEOPATHY. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Treat  the  patient  as  in  constipation,  except  knead- 
ing the  bowels,  which  should  be  omitted  when  constipation 
is  not  present. 

2d.  Stand  behind  the  patient,  and,  raising  the  right 
arm  high  above  the  head,  lifting  strong,  press  hard  with  the 
left  thumb  on  the  fourth  dorsal  vertebra,  lowering  the  arm 
with  a  backward  motion.  This  pressure  reaches  nerves  that 
control  the  pyloric  valve,  causing  the  pyloric  orifice  to  open 
and  permit  gases  and  undigested  food  to  pass  into  the 
duodenum. 

Four  wreeks'  treatment  should  cure  any  case  of  this 
complaint. 

BRIGHT'S  DISEASE. 

Symptoms. 

Dropsy  of  the  upper  as  well  as  lower  parts  of  the  body, 
the  hands  and  feet  as  well  as  face  being  swollen;  a  dry,  harsh 
skin;  quick,  hard  pulse;  thirst,  and  often  sickness  from  sym- 
pathy of  the  stomach  with  the  kidneys.  There  is  frequent 
desire  to  pass  water,  which  is  scanty,  highly  colored  or 
smoky-looking,  albuminous,  and  of  high  specific  gravity. 

KIDNEY  DISEASE,  OR  INFLAMMATION  OF  THE 
KIDNEYS. 


Disease  of  the  kidneys  may  be  distinguished  from  colic 
and  other  similar  affections  by  the  pain  being  far  back,  and 
by  the  urine  being  of  a  deep  red  color,  voided  frequently  and 
in  small  quantities.  It  may  be  distinguished  from  rheuma- 
tism by  the  pain  not  being  increased  by  motion.  This  disease 


OSTEOPATHY. 


75 


is  attended  with  a  sharp  pain  on  the  affected  side,  with  much 
difficulty  in  passing  urin^;  the  bowels  are  costive;  the  skin 
is  hot;  the  patient  feels  great  uneasiness  when  he  attempts 
to  walk  or  sit  upright,  and  lies  with  most  ease  on  the  affected 
side.  Remission  of  the  pain,  discharge  of  high-colored 
mucous  urine,  sweating,  or  a  flow  of  blood  from  the  hem- 
orrhoidal  veins,  passed  in  the  stools,  are  favorable  symptoms. 

The  Kidneys. 

The  kidneys,  two  in  number,  are  situated  in  the  back 
part  of  the  abdomen,  and  are  for  the  purpose  of  separating 
from  the  blood  certain  materials  which,  when  dissolved  in  a 
quantity  of  water,  also  separated  from  the  blood  by  the  kid- 
neys, constitutes  the  urine.  They  are  placed  in  the  loins, 
one  on  each  side  of  the  vertebral  column;  their  upper  ex- 
tremity is  on  a  level  with  the  upper  border  of  the  twelfth 
dorsal  vertebra,  and  their  lower  extremity  on  a  level  with 
the  third  lumbar  vertebra.  The  right  kidney  is  usually  on 
a  lower  level  than  the  left,  probably  on  account  of  the 
vicinity  of  the  liver.  Each  kidney  is  about  four  inches  in 
length  and  two  to  two  and  one-half  in  breadth;  they  are  a 
little  over  an  inch  in  thickness.  The  kidney  is  plentifully 
supplied  with  blood  by  the  renal  artery,  a  large  branch  of  the 
abdominal  aorta.  The  nerves,  although  small,  are  about 
fifteen  in  number.  They  communicate  with  the  spermatic 
plexus,  a  circumstance  which  may  explain  the  occurrence 
of  pain  in  the  testicle  in  all'ections  of  the  kidneys.  It  will 
be  remembered  that  urea  and  uric  acid  arc  found  in  the 
liver  and  transmitted  from  that  organ  to  the  kidneys.  Thus 
it  will  be  seen  that  with  a  diseased  liver  we  cannot  hav<- 
healthy  kidneys.  While  we  have  as  yet  been  unable  to  cure 
Uright's  disease,  diabetes,  and  troubles  of  the  bladder  and 
kidneys  caused  by  stricture,  all  other  urinary  troubles  can 


76  OSTEOPATHY. 

be  immediately  cured,  and  those  just  mentioned  generally 
benefited,  by  the  following  treatment. 

Treatment  for  Kidney  Troubles. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  the  side,  and,  if  the  kidneys 
are  inactive,  begin  at  the  sixth  dorsal  vertebra,  with  the  ends 
of  the  fingers  close  to  the  spine,  moving  the  muscles  upward 
and  outward,  working  deep  the  entire  length  of  the  spine 
on  each  side.  This  treatment  excites  the  nerves  to  renewed 
action  and  increases  the  action  of  the  blood,  thus  nourishing 
the  weakened  parts  and  giving  them  more  strength  to  act. 

2d.  The  kidneys  should  be  kneaded  gently  at  first,  and 
gradually  with  a  stronger  force.  It  is  indeed  surprising  how 
rapidly  a  patient  will  recover  under  this  treatment. 

3d.  When  the  kidneys  are  too  active,  a  steady  pressure 
should  be  given  from  the  twelfth  dorsal  vertebra  to  the  last 
lumbar  vertebra,  close  to  the  spine,  in  any  manner  most  con- 
venient to  the  operator. 

4th.  Place  the  patient  on  the  face,  and,  while  pressing 
hard  on  the  sacrum  immediately  below  the  small  of  the  back, 
raise  the  limbs  from  the  table  as  high  as  the  patient  can  bear 
without  too  much  inconvenience,  moving  them  gently  from 
side  to  side  (see  cut  10).  Mothers  whose  children  have  no 
control  over  the  urine  can  cure  them  entirely  of  this  annoy- 
ing trouble,  in  one  or  two  treatments,  by  pressing  on  the 
sacrum  close  to  the  last  lumbar  vertebra  and  raising  the 
limbs  as  shown  in  cut  10. 

This  treatment  is  as  reliable  as  mathematics.  Among 
the  many  cases  cured  by  us  of  this  trouble  we  will  mention 
our  first  experience  in  this  line.  A  young  man  of  Kirksville, 
Mo.,  hearing  that  we  were  investigating  this  subject,  called 
at  our  office,  and,  after  explaining  that  he  had  no  control 
over  his  urine  and  had  been  expending  all  his  earnings  in 
vain  hope  of  relief,  asked  us  to  take  his  case.  Not  having 


Cut  10. 


OSTEOPATHY. 


79 


a  table  at  that  time,  we  caused  him  to  lie  on  his  stomach  on 
the  floor,  and,  placing  the  right  foot  between  his  thighs  and 
the  left  on  the  sacrum,  with  an  ankle  in  either  hand,  we  raised 
the  limbs,  sprung  down  the  sacrum,  and  asked  him  to  call 
again  on  the  second  day.  While  administering  the  third  treat- 
ment we  inquired  as  to  results,  and  were  not  only  gratified, 
but  surprised,  to  learn  that  he  had  had  no  trouble  since  the 
first  treatment.  Two  years  later  the  young  man  was  still  in 
perfect  health.  We  might  mention  also  a  gentleman  82  years 
of  age,  of  Lewiston,  Mo.,  troubled  with  this  disease  for  over 
thirty  years.  He  was  entirely  cured  in  four  weeks  by  this 
method  of  treatment. 

ENLARGED  SPLEEN. 

Symptoms. 

This  disease  is  characterized  by  a  sharp  or  chill  pain 
beneath  the  lower  left  ribs;  with  more  or  less  tenderness 
on  external  pressure;  in  some  instances  there  is  very  little 
pain,  simply  a  feeling  of  weight  or  fullness,  which  is  worse 
when  the  patient  lies  on  the  affected  side.  The  attack  is 
generally  accompanied  by  chills  and  fever,  and  sometimes 
there  is  nausea  and  vomiting,  cough,  difficulty  of  breathing, 
and  hiccough.  The  spleen  often  becomes  enlarged  so  as  to 
be  felt  beneath  the  lower  left  ribs. 

The  Spleen. 

The  spleen  is  situated  under  cover  of  the  ribs  of  the 
left  side,  being  separated  from  them  by  the  diaphragm  (the 
great  muscle  of  respiration),  and  above  by  a  small  portion 
of  the  left  lung.  Its  position  corresponds  to  the  ninth, 
tenth,  and  eleventh  ribs.  We  find  that  enlargement  of  the 
spleen  and  other  splenic  troubles  are  caused  by  a  contraction 


8o  OSTEOPATHY. 

of  the  muscles  of  these  ribs  and  a  consequent  settling  of  one 
or  all  of  the  ribs  mentioned  upon  the  spleen.  Sharp  pains 
in  this  region  are  from  the  same  cause,  and  can  be  instantly 
relieved,  and  in  a  few  weeks  cured,  by  our  treatment  for 
enlargement  of  the  spleen. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  the  right  side,  and  loosen 
all  the  muscles  over  and  around  the  eighth,  ninth,  tenth, 
eleventh,  and  twelfth  ribs  from  the  spinal  column  to  the 
median  line  in  front,  always  moving  the  muscles  upward 
and  not  permitting  the  flesh  to  slip  under  the  hand. 

2d.  Place  the  patient  on  a  stool,  the  thumb  of  the  right 
hand  on  the  angle  of  the  rib  at  fault,  and  roll  the  arm  slowly 
but  very  strongly  high  above  the  head;  lower  the  arm  with  a 
backward  motion ;  at  the  same  instant,  with  the  thumb  of  the 
right  hand,  spring  the  rib  forward  off  the  spleen  (see  cut  11). 

This  treatment  usually  gives  immediate  relief,  and  in 
from  two  to  four  weeks  will  effect  a  cure. 


HEART  DISEASE. 

Symptoms. 

The  patient  is  seized  with  a  sudden  dreadful  pain,  which 
centers  in  the  heart  and  extends  over  more  or  less  of  the 
anterior  portion  of  the  chest,  up  the  shoulder,  and  down 
the  arm.  There  is  an  agonizing  sense  of  anxiety,  faintness, 
and  fear  of  instant  death,  palpitation,  and  difficulty  of 
breathing,  so  that,  if  walking,  he  is  compelled  to  stop  and 
to  fix  on  the  first  object  that  offers  support,  and  so  remains, 
pale  and  covered  with  a  clammy  perspiration.  The  parox- 
ysms may  terminate  in  a  few  minutes  or  last  for  hours,  and 


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OSTEOPATHY.  83 

are  liable  to  recur  with  increased  severity  till  at  length  one 
proves  fatal. 

The  Heart. 

The  heart  is  a  hollow,  muscular  organ,  of  a  conical  form, 
placed  between  the  lungs  and  enclosed  in  the  cavity  of  the 
pericardium.  The  heart  is  placed  obliquely  in  the  chest,  the 
broad  attached  end  or  base  upward,  backward,  and  to  the 
right,  and  corresponds  to  the  interval  between  the  fifth  and 
eighth  dorsal  vertebrae;  the  apex  is  directed  downward,  for- 
ward, and  to  the  left,  and  corresponds  to  the  space  between 
the  cartilages  of  the  fifth  and  sixth  ribs,  three-quarters  of 
an  inch  to  the  inner  side  and  an  inch  and  a  half  below  the 
left  nipple.  The  heart  is  placed  behind  the  lower  two-thirds 
of  the  sternum,  and  projects  farther  into  the  left  than  into 
the  right  cavity  of  the  chest,  extending  from  the  median  line 
about  three  inches  in  the  former  direction  and  only  one  and 
one-half  inches  in  the  latter.  The  heart  in  the  adult 
measures  five  inches  in  length,  three  inches  and  a  half  in 
the  broadest  part,  and  two  inches  and  a  half  in  thickness. 
The  average  weight  in  the  male  varies  from  ten  to  twelve 
ounces,  and  in  the  female  from  eight  to  ten.  The  heart  con- 
tinues to  increase  in  weight,  also  in  length,  breadth,  and 
thickness,  up  to  an  advanced  period  of  life.  The  heart  of 
man  and  warm-blooded  animals  may  be  said  to  be  made  up 
of  two  muscular  sacs,  the  pulmonary  and  systemic  pumps, 
or,  as  they  are  commonly  called,  the  right  and  left  sides  of 
the  heart.  Between  these  no  communication  exists  after 
birth.  Each  of  these  sacs  may  be  divided  into  two  chambers. 
One,  acting  as  an  ante-chamber,  receives  the  blood  from  the 
veins;  it  has  very  thin  walls,  and  is  called  the  auricle;  the 
other,  the  ventricle,  is  the  powerful  muscular  chamber  which 
pumps  the  blood  into  and  distends  the  arteries.  It  has  been 
found  that  stimulation  of  the  cervical  portion  of  the  spinal 


84  OSTEOPATH7. 

cord  causes  quickening  of  the  heart-beat,  while  a  steady  pres- 
sure on  the  same  nerve-centers  slows  the  action  of  the  heart. 
It  is  thus  that  in  fever,  working  from  this  center,  we  slow 
the  heart's  action,  and  are  thereby  enabled  to  reduce  any 
fever  in  an  incredibly  short  time. 

We  will  now  for  a  moment  touch  upon  the  arteries  and 
veins,  my  object  being  to  prove  to  my  readers  that  the  heart, 
arteries,  and  veins  are  simply  different  parts  of  the  same 
machine,  and  that  the  contraction  of  a  muscle,  throwing  a 
pressure  on  an  artery  or  vein,  will  affect  the  heart,  on  the 
same  principle  that  a  force-pump  attached  to  a  rubber  hose 
would  be  affected  should  you  stand  on  the  hose.  The  chan- 
nels which  carry  the  blood  through  the  body  form  a  closed 
system  of  elastic  tubes,  which  may  be  divided  into  three 
varieties:  arteries,  capillaries,  and  veins.  The  arteries  are 
those  vessels  that  carry  the  blood  from  the  heart  to  the 
capillaries.  The  great  trunk  of  the  aorta  springs  from  the 
left  ventricle  and  gives  off  a  series  of  branches,  which  in 
turn  subdivide  more  and  more  freely  in  proportion  to  their 
distance  from  the  heart.  The  aorta  is  divided  into  the  arch, 
ascending  and  descending  portions.  The  descending  aorta 
is  divided  into  two  portions,  the  thoracic  and  abdominal, 
in  correspondence  with  the  two  great  cavities  of  the  trunk 
in  which  it  is  situated.  The  thoracic  aorta  commences  at 
the  lower  border  of  the  fourth  dorsal  vertebra  on  the  left 
side,  and  terminates  at  the  aortic  opening  in  the  diaphragm, 
in  front  of  the  last  dorsal  vertebra.  The  abdominal  aorta 
commences  at  the  aortic  opening  in  the  diaphragm,  in  front 
of  the  body  of  the  last  dorsal  vertebra,  and,  descending  a 
little  to  the  left  of  the  vertebral  column,  terminates  opposite 
the  body  of  the  fourth  lumbar  vertebra,  where  it  divides  into 
the  right  and  left  common  iliac  arteries.  The  common 
iliac  arteries  are  about  two  inches  in  length,  and  divide 
opposite  the  i n ter vertebral  substance  of  the  last  lumbar 


OSTEOPATHY.  85 

vertebra  and  sacrum,  into  the  internal  and  external  iliac 
arteries,  the  latter  supplying  the  lower  extremities.     The 
external  iliac  artery  passes  obliquely  downward  and  outward 
along  the  inner  border  of  the  psoas  muscle  from  the  bifurca- 
tion of  the  common  iliac  arteries  to  Poupart's  ligament,  where 
it  enters  the  thigh  and  becomes  the  femoral  urtery.    The 
femoral  artery  commences  immediately  behind  Poupart's 
ligament,  midway  between  the  anterior  and  superior  spine 
of  the  ilium  and  the  symphysis  pubis,  and,  passing  down 
the  front  and  inner  part  of  the  thigh,  terminates  at  the 
opening  of  the  adductor  magnus  muscle  at  the  junction  of 
the  middle  with  the  lower  third  of  the  thigh,  where  it  becomes 
the  popliteal  artery.     The  popliteal  artery  commences  at  the 
termination  of  the  femoral  at  the  opening  in  the  adductor 
niagnus,   and,  passing  obliquely   downward   and   outward 
behind  the  knee-joint  to  the  lower  border  of  the  popliteus 
muscle,  divides  into  the  anterior  and  posterior  tibial  arteries. 
The  anterior  tibial  artery  passes  forward  between  the  two 
heads  of  the  tibialus  posticus  to  the  deep  part  of  the  front 
of  the  leg ;  then  descends  on  the  anterior  surface  of  the  inter- 
osseous  membrane,  gradually  approaching  the  tibia,  and  at 
the  lower  part  of  the  leg  lies  on  the  bone,  and  then  on  the 
anterior  ligament  of  the  ankle  to  the  bend  of  the  ankle- 
joint,  where  it  lies  more  superficially  and  becomes  the  dor- 
salis  pedis.     This  artery  passes  forward  from  the  bend  of 
the  ankle  along  the  tibial  side  of  the  foot,  and  terminates 
in  two  small  branches,  the  dorsalis  hallucis  and  communica- 
ting.    The  posterior  tibial  artery  is  of  large  size,  and  passes 
obliquely  downward  from  the  lower  border  of  the  popliteus 
muscle  along  the  tibial  side  of  the  leg  to  the  fossa  between 
the  ankle  and  the  heel,  where  it  divides  into  the  internal  and 
external  plantar  arteries. 

Now,  having  traced  this  river  of  blood,  which  throws 


86  OSTEOPATHY. 

branches  to  each  organ  and  muscle  in  its  course  from  the 
heart  to  its  termination  in  the  lower  extremities,  passing  as 
it  does  through,  over,  under,  and  between  the  numerous 
muscles  on  its  journey,  it  will  not  be  hard  for  the  intelligent 
reader  to  believe  that  an  obstruction  to  its  free  flow,  caused 
by  contracted  muscles,  would  affect  the  heart.  Cramping  of 
the  muscles  is  so  very  common,  often  leaving  the  muscles 
in  ridges,  that  the  most  skeptical  will  not  dispute  the  fact 
that  muscles  will  contract  and  remain  in  that  condition. 
The  heavy  muscles  of  the  thigh  and  those  below  and  about 
the  knee,  from  their  peculiar  relation  to  the  artery  and  their 
great  strength,  are  usually  at  fault,  and  by  a  simple  twist 
of  the  leg,  throwing  these  muscles  on  a  strain,  and  thereby 
freeing  the  femoral  artery,  we  have  cured  cases  of  heart 
disease  that  had  baffled  the  best  physicians  of  modern  times. 

Treatment. 

First  ascertain  if  the  patient  has  cold  extremities;  such 
being  the  case,  the  trouble  is  necessarily  along  the  line  of  the 
artery,  and  the  heart  trouble  corresponds  to  the  illustration 
of  pump  and  rubber  hose  when  the  hose  is  obstructed. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  the  back,  and,  grasping  the 
ankle  in  the  right  hand,  flex  the  leg  against  the  chest,  slowly 
but  strongly;  while  pressing  it  hard  against  the  chest,  rotate 
[f  from  right  to  left  as  in  cut  G.  Bring  it  to  its  full 
length,  turning  the  knee  in  and  foot  out  with  a  light  jerk 
(cut  7).  This  should  be  repeated  with  each  limb  two  or  three 
times  at  each  treatment. 

2d.  Flex  the  knees,  place  the  feet  together,  and,  with 
one  hand  on  each  knee,  spread  the  knees  as  far  apart  as 
possible,  thus  stretching  the  adductor  muscles  (see  cut  12). 

3d.  Placing  one  hand  on  each  side  of  the  thigh,  close 
to  the  body,  move  all  the  flesh,  very  deep,  from  right  to  left, 
the  entire  length  of  the  limb  (cut  13). 


Cut  12. 


Cut  13. 


OSTEOPATHY.  gl 

4th.  Grasp  the  foot,  and,  while  rotating  the  limb,  pull 
slowly  but  strongly. 

We  guarantee  that  any  case  of  cold  limbs  accompanied 
by  heart  trouble,  or  in  which  the  organic  difficulty  is  not  yet 
perceptible,  can  be  cured  in  from  two  to  four  weeks  by 
this  treatment,  which  should  not  take  over  ten  minutes 
each  time,  and  should  be  given  every  other  day. 

"ENLARGEMENT  OF  THE  HEART,"  ETC. 

Heart  disease  is  often  caused  by  constipation  and  a 
diseased  condition  of  the  alimentary  canal.  Those  cases  can 
be  readily  distinguished,  as  the  patient  will  find  great 
difficulty  in  breathing  when  in  a  recumbent  position,  and 
upon  resuming  an  upright  position  w^ll  feel  immediate  relief, 
thus  proving  that  the  organs  are  distended  to  such  ah  extent 
that  there  is  at  all  times  a  pressure  on  the  diaphragm  left 
lung,  and  heart,  and  that  their  own  weight  when  in  an  upright 
position  will  partially  free  the  last  named  organs.  It  will 
be  readily  understood  that  out  constipation  or  indigestion 
treatment,  or  both,  as  the  case  may  seem  to  require,  will  cure 
this  form  of  heart  disease,  as  it  has  done  in  hundreds  of  cases. 
Other  cases,  and  they  are  very  numerous,  are  caused  by 
a  contraction  of  the  muscles,  depressing  the  ribs  immedi- 
ately over  the  heart,  thus  interfering  with  its  action.  We 
are  led  to  believe  that  there  are  very  few  cases  of  actual 
"enlargement  of  the  heart,"  but  that  the  so-called  "enlarge- 
ment of  the  heart"  is  really  a  compression  of  the  cavity  in 
which  the  heart  is  contained. 

Treatment  for  "Enlargement  of  tlie  Heart." 

1st.     Free  all  the  muscles  attached  to  the  ribs  immedi- 
ately over  the  heart,  from  the  spine  to  the  median  line,  on 

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each  side,  always  moving  the  flesh  upward,  using  the  arm 
as  a  lever  in  treating  the  muscles  of  the  spine  (cut  3). 

2d.  Place  the  patient  on  the  back,  one  operator  grasp- 
ing each  wrist;  placing  the  disengaged  hand  between  the 
patient's  shoulders,  the  fingers  pressing  hard  upon  the  angle 
of  the  rib  between  the  spine  and  scapula,  draw  the  arms 
slowly,  but  with  some  strength,  high  above  the  head;  move 
the  hands  down  one  inch,  and  repeat  until  you  have  reached 
the  lower  angle  of  the  scapula. 

This  will  usually  give  instant  relief,  and  never  fails  to 
effect  a  cure  in  from  two  to  four  wreeks'  treatment.  A  treat- 
ment should  be  given  every  other  day. 

Of  the  many  cases  cured  by  us  in  this  manner,  it  might 
be  well  to  mention  an  old  gentleman  of  Galena,  Kansas.  As 
a  drowning  man  will  grasp  at  a  straw,  when  he  was  dying 
and  nearly  all  hope  had  fled,  we  were  called  in,  and,  in  the 
presence  of  two  medical  doctors  and  the  members  of  his 
family,  we  raised  his  ribs,  thus  permitting  the  heart  to  act. 
In  a  few  minutes  we  had  our  patient  out  of  danger.  We  will 
also  add  that  he  never  after  had  any  difficulty  with  his  heart. 


FEEBLE  ACTION  OF  THE  HEART. 

This  trouble  is  caused  by  an  almost  imperceptible  con- 
traction of  all  the  muscles,  thus  interfering  with  the  entire 
circulation.  An  aching,  tired  sensation,  so  often  felt,  is 
caused  by  the  contracting  muscles,  as  is  readily  proven 
beyond  the  shadow  of  a  doubt  by  the  fact  that  after  a  general 
treatment,  stretching  and  moving  all  the  muscles,  permit- 
ting the  sluggish  blood  to  move  more  rapidly  through  the 
arteries  and  veins,  the  heart's  action  is  increased  and  the 
tired,  aching,  worn  sensation  has  entirely  disappeared. 


OSTEOPATHY.  93 

General  Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  pal  .ion  1  on  the  side,  using  the  arm  as  a 
Icvci-  icut  3),  with  the  fingers  pressing  rather  hard  close  to 
the  spine;  beginning  at  the  first  dorsal  vertebra,  free  all  the 
muscles  the  entire  length  of  the  spinal  column.  Have  the 
patient  turn  over,  and  treat  the  other  side  in  a  similar  manner. 

2d.  Flex  the  limbs  against  the  chest,  the  patient  lying 
on  the  back;  rotate  the  leg  from  right  to  left  two  or  three 
times,  extending  with  a  light  jerk  (cuts  G  and  7). 

.'!d.  Grasp  the  thighs  firmly  with  one  hand  on  each  side, 
the  fingers  meeting;  beginning  close  to  the  body,  move  the 
flesh,  to  the  bone  if  possible,  from  right  to  left,  the  entire 
length  of  the  limb  (cut  13). 

4th.  Place  the  patient  on  a  stool,  the  operator  standing 
at  his  back,  and,  placing  the  knee  between  patient's  shoul- 
ders, grasp  the  wrists  and  raise  the  arms  strongly  high  above 
the  head  (see  cut  2);  at  this  time  the  patient  will  inhale, 
filling  the  lungs  with  air;  lower  the  arms  with  a  backward 
motion. 

5th.  Place  one  hand  under  the  chin,  the  other  under 
back  of  the  head,  and  pull  gently,  rotating  the  head  from 
side  to  side  (cut  4). 

6th.  Placing  one  hand  on  each  side  of  the  neck,  the 
fingers  almost  meeting  at  the  back  of  the  neck,  close  to  the 
head  and  the  breadth  of  four  fingers  down  the  neck,  press 
gently  on  the  vaso-motor  center  (see  cut  5)  for  a  few 
moments,  to  quiet  the  nerves. 

This  treatment  will  require  not  over  fifteen  minutes, 
and  should  be  given  ev.ery  other  day.  We  guarantee  it  to 
give  immediate  relief,  and,  if  continued  for  from  two  to  four 
weeks,  a  permanent  cure  will  be  effected. 

Of  the  numerous  cases  cured  by  our  general  treatment, 
we  will  mention  that  of  an  old  gentleman  brought  to  us  in 


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OSTEOPATHY. 


Galena,  Kansas.  He  could  not  climb  the  steps  to  our  office. 
We  treated  him  on  the  counter  in  a  grocery  store  near  by. 
His  pulse,  which  was  hardly  perceptible,  was  down  to  38. 
When  he  came  for  his  second  treatment,  two  days  later,  his 
pulse  was  strong  and  had  increased  to  58.  He  could  hear 
better,  and  recognized  people  on  the  street  for  the  first  time 
in  months 

DROPSY. 

Symptoms. 

Dropsy  is  watery  accumulation  in  the  areolar  tissue 
more  or  less  generally  throughout  the  body.  It  is  of  two 
distinct  varieties,  for,  besides  its  occurrence  in  the  meshes 
of  the  loose  tissue  beneath  the  skin,  it  may  take  place  as  a 
local  dropsy  in  any  of  the  natural  cavities  or  sacs  of  the  body, 
and  is  named  according  to  the  parts  involved. 

Partial  dropsy  is  always  due  to  excessive  venous  reple- 
tion, and  this  overdistention  of  the  small  veins  is  the  result 
of  some  mechanical  impediment  to  the  venous  circulation. 
Dropsy  due  to  obstructed  portal  circulation  may  be  recog- 
nized by  the  following  clinical  characters:  It  begins  in  the 
abdomen;  difficult  breathing  follows,  but  does  not  precede 
the  ascites.  There  is  a  tendency  to  vomiting,  diarrhea,  and 
piles;  further,  the  spleen  becomes  enlarged  and  there  are 
varicose  veins  on  the  right  side  of  the  abdomen. 

Dropsy  at  first  partial,  but  afterwards  becoming  general, 
commences  in  the  feet  and  extends  upward,  and  this  is  also 
due  to  excessive  venous  repletion  from  obstructed  venous 
circulation. 

Dropsical  swellings  are  soft,  inelastic,  diffused,  and 
leave,  for  some  time,  the  indentation  made  by  the  pressure 
of  a  finger.  In  chronic  cases  and  when  the  swelling  is  very 


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great  the  skin  becomes  smooth,  glassy,  and  of  a  dull  red  or 
purple  color,  and  where  the  skin  is  less  elastic  it  becomes 
livid  or  blackish  and  troublesome,  even  gangrenous,  or 
sloughs  may  form. 

In  treating  dropsy,  of  whatever  organ,  it  is  necessary 
to  use  such  remedies  as  will  act  on  the  kidneys  and  skin  and 
excite  them  to  increased  activity;  the  result  of  this  activity 
is  to  diminish  the  fluids  which  have  collected  in  one  or 
another  part  of  the  body  and  remain  there  unabsorbed,  and 
cause  them  to  be  taken  up  by  the  kidneys  or  thrown  off  by 
the  skin,  and  thus  carried  out  of  the  system  through  the 
natural  outlets.  Any  remedy  that  accomplishes  this  object 
effectively  cures  dropsy  occuring  in  any  part  of  the  body. 

Cause  of  Dropsy. 

That  the  reader  may  gain  a  more  correct  understanding 
of  our  method  of  treating  dropsy,  viewing  the  human  body  as 
a  machine,  we  will  once  more  refer  to  the  anatomy.  Having 
followed  this  river  of  blood  from  the  heart  to  its  termination, 
we  must  now  trace  it  back  to  the  heart  and  endeavor  to 
locate  along  its  channel  the  cause  of  dropsy  and  consequent 
heart  trouble.  The  frequently  branching  arteries  finally 
terminate  in  the  capillaries,  in  which  distinct  branches  can 
no  longer  be  recognized,  but  their  channels  are  interwoven 
into  a  network,  the  meshes  of  which  are  made  up  of  vessels 
all  having  the  same  caliber.  They  communicate  with  the 
capillary  network  of  the  neighboring  arteries,  so  that  any 
given  capillary  area  appears  to  be  one  continuous  net  of 
tubules  connected  here  and  there  with  a  similar  network 
from  distant  arterioles,  and  thus  any  given  capillary  area 
may  be  fed  with  blood  from  several  different  sources. 

Veins. 

The  veins  arise  from  the  capillary  uH  work,  commencing 
as  radicles,  which  correspond  to  the  ultimate  distribution 


96  OSTEOPATHY. 

of  the  arterioles,  but  they  soon  form  wider  and  more 
numerous  channels.  They  rapidly  congregate  together, 
making  comparatively  large  vessels,  which  frequently  inter- 
communicate and  form  coarse  and  irregular  flexures.  Thus 
it  will  be  seen  that  we  have  two  rivers,  one  distributing,  the 
other  gathering  up  and  returning  the  blood  to  the  heart. 
While  a  pressure  on  an  artery,  cutting  off  the  supply  to 
the  extremities,  causes  them  to  be  cold,  at  the  same  time 
affecting  the  heart,  a  pressure  on  a  vein,  stopping  the  return 
current,  will  necessitate  an  engorgement  of  the  blood  in  the 
capillaries;  the  heart,  working  against  heavy  odds  in  trying 
to  force  the  blood  past  the  contracted  muscles,  will  certainly 
be  affected,  while  the  stagnant  blood,  unable  to  escape,  will 
cause  either  inflammatory  rheumatism,  dropsy,  or  erysipelas. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  the  side  and  move  all  the 
muscles  of  the  spine  very  deep  from  the  tenth  dorsal  to  the 
last  sacral  vertebra.  This  will  excite  the  nerves  which  con- 
trol the  kidneys  to  renewed  action,  thereby  enabling  them 
to  separate  the  immense  amount  of  water  about  to  be  poured 
into  them  from  the  blood. 

2d.  Give  general  treatment  (page  03),  being  very  care- 
ful to  stretch  all  the  muscles  near  the  affected  parts. 

In  a  very  short  time,  usually  from  two  to  six  days,  the 
kidneys  will  begin  to  act  very  freely,  throwing  off  the 
decomposed  and  watery  particles  of  blood,  while  in  from  two 
to  six  weeks  the  patient  will  be  entirely  well. 

Of  numerous  cases  cured  by  us  of  dropsy  we  will  men- 
tion that  of  a  lady  of  Joplin,  Missouri,  whose  case  had  not 
only  been  treated  by  the  best  physicians  of  her  own  citj, 
but  those  of  Kansas  fMty  and  St.  Louis.  She  came  io  us  in 
a  hopeless  condition;  her  abdomen,  limbs,  and  feet  were 


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97 


swollen  to  more  than  twice  their  normal  size.  After  the 
second  general  treatment,  she  began  to  improve  rapidly,  and 
;n  ten  days  her  ankle  could  be  spanned  by  the  thumb  and 
Angers;  in  one  month  the  dropsy  had  entirely  disappeared. 
She  gained  strength  rapidly,  and  in  a  short  time  had 
entirely  regained  her  health. 

Another  remarkable  case  was  that  of  an  old  gentleman 
of  Baxter  Springs,  Kansas,  who  had  been  for  five  years 
gradually  losing  the  use  of  his  lower  limbs,  and  during  the 
last  year  dropsy  had  made  its  appearance.  After  the  second 
general  treatment,  the  dropsy  had  almost  entirely  disap- 
peared; his  limbs  regained  their  long-lost  strength,  and  he 
would  leap  about  the  office  like  a  boy  in  an  ecstasy  of  delight, 
kicking  higher  than  the  doctor's  head  and  springing  from  the 
floor  to  our  operating-table  with  apparent  ease. 


GENERAL  DEBILITY. 

While  we  cannot  roll  back  the  vail  of  years,  we  propose 
to  prove  to  our  friends  in  advanced  life  that  we  can  at  least 
make  them  feel  quite  young  again.  In  old  age  the  muscles, 
arteries,  and,  in  fact,  all  the  organs,  are  prone  to  ossify.  The 
muscles  become  contracted  and  stiff,  thus  interfering  with 
the  free  flow  of  blood,  and  limy  deposits  form  around  the 
joints.  It  is  but  reasonable  and  natural  that  our  general 
treatment  (page  9.">),  which  stretches  and  frees  all  the  muscles, 
ligaments,  and  joints,  causing  the  blood  to  run  faster  and 
the  heart  to  beat  stronger,  wyould  be  especially  applicable. 
It  has  been  tested  and  proven  times  without  number,  and 
we  feel  that  we  can  safely  assert  without  fear  of  contra- 
diction that  our  general  treatment  with  the  aged  and  infirm 
never  has  and  never  will  fail  to  give  gratifying  results. 

—7— 


9g  OSTEOPATHY. 

We  will  mention  in  this  connection  the  case  of  a  gentle 
man  eighty-one  years  of  age,  of  Miami,  Indian  Territory,  in 
whom  the  machinery  of  life  had  nearly  run  down.  His  sons, 
hearing  of  some  of  our  rather  remarkable  cures,  brought  the 
old  man  in,  much  against  his  will,  for  treatment.  He  was  car- 
ried into  our  office  and  laid  upon  the  table.  After  an  cx- 
amination,  we  pronounced  the  case  hopeless,  as  we  did  not 
think  there  was  enough  vitality  left  to  respond  to  the  treat- 
ment and  once  more  resume  control  of  the  machinery  of  life. 
However,  we  administered  a  general  treatment,  and  were 
as  much  surprised  as  his  sons  to  see  the  old  gentleman  get  up 
and  walk  down  stairs  unassisted.  In  three  weeks  he  was 
restored  to  health  and  threw  away  the  cane  he  had  carried 
for  thirty  years.  Being  a  man  of  undoubted  veracity  and 
well  known  throughout  the  Indian  Territory  and  southern 
Kansas,  his  seemingly  miraculous  restoration  to  health 
through  this  method  gave  us  quite  an  enviable  reputation 
through  that  section  of  the  country.  Sometimes,  when  weary 
and  annoyed  by  many  questions  put  to  him  regarding  our 
method,  he  would  tell  the  people  that  he  was  no  walking 
advertisement. 

That  the  young  as  well  as  the  old  can  be  benefited  by  this 
general  treatment  has  been  proved  in  numerous  instances, 
after  all  other  known  methods  have  failed.  One  case  we  will 
mention  is  that  of  a  child  eighteen  months  old.  Her  cold, 
emaciated  limbs,  and  the  eruptions  on  her  face  and  neck 
and  in  the  ears,  told  too  plainly  to  be  misunderstood  the 
story  of  contracted  muscles  and  of  stagnant  blood.  Although 
the  little  sufferer  was  so  low  that  her  case  seemed  almost 
hopeless,  she  was  cured  in  four  treatments,  given  every  sec- 
ond day,  and  is  now  a  healthy  child. 


OSTEOPATHY.  9g 

FEVER  AND  AGUE. 

/Symptoms. 

This  disease  may  be  divided  into  three  stages:  the  cold 
stage,  the  hot  stage,  the  sweating  stage. 

Cold  Stage. — An  intermitting  fever  generally  begins 
with  pain  in  the  head  and  loins,  weariness  of  the  limbs, 
coldness  of  the  extremities,  stretching,  yawning,  with  some- 
times great  sickness  and  vomiting,  to  which  succeed  shiver- 
ing and  violent  shaking;  respiration  is  short,  frequent,  and 
anxious. 

Hot  Stage. — After  a  longer  or  shorter  continuance  of 
shivering,  the  heat  of  the  body  gradually  returns— irreg- 
ularly at  first,  and  by  transient  flushes,  soon  succeeded  by 
a.  steady  dry  and  burning  heat,  considerably  augmenting 
above  the  natural  standard;  the  skin,  which  before  was  pale 
and  constricted,  becomes  swollen,  tense,  and  red;  pain  is 
felt  in  the  head  and  various  parts  of  the  body;  the  pulse  is 
quick,  strong,  and  hard ;  the  tongue  white,  the  thirst  great, 
and  the  urine  high-colored. 

Sweating  Stage. — A  moisture  is  observed,  the  heat  falls, 
Hie  pulse  diminishes  and  becomes  full  and  free,  and  all  the 
functions  are  restored  to  their  natural  order. 

CONGESTIVE  CHILLS. 

Symptoms. 

These  are  only  an  aggravated  form  of  chills  and  fever, 
and  are  sometimes  called  "sinking  chills." 

We  guarantee  our  general  treatment  to  cure  chills  and 
fever  and  congestive  chills  in  from  two  to  six  days,  and  to 
give  immediate  relief  in  all  cases,  even  after  all  other  known 
methods  have  failed.  The  almost  imperceptible  contraction 


IOO 


OSTEOPATHY. 


of  muscles  not  only  checks  the  warm  blood,  thus  producing 
the  chill,  but  also  causes  the  bones  to  ache.  The  patient 
will  unconsciously  stretch,  thus  gaming  momentary  relief. 
When  the  muscles  finally  relax,  freeing  the  pent-up  blood, 
it  rushes  to  the  head  and  through  the  arteries  too  rapidly; 
thus  the  accompanying  fever  is  produced. 

Treatment. 

Give  general  treatment  (page  1)3),  if  possible,  just  befrre 
the  chill;  hold  the  vaso-motor  center  (cut  5),  which  causes 
the  arteries  to  contract,  thus  slowing  the  heart's  action,  only 
when  fever  is  perceptible.  In  ordinary  cases  there  will  be 
but  one  light  chill  after  the  first  treatment. 

BRAIN  FEVER. 

Symptoms. 

The  symptoms  which  usually  precede  brain  fever  are 
pain  in  the  head,  redness  of  the  eyes,  a  violent  flushing  of 
the  face,  disturbed  sleep  or  a  total  want  of  it,  great  dryness 
of  the  skin,  costiveness,  retention  of  the  urine,  a  small  drop- 
ping of  blood  from  the  nose,  singing  in  the  ears,  and  extreme 
sensibility  of  the  nervous  system.  The  pulse  is  often  weak, 
irregular,  and  trembling,  but  sometimes  is  hard  and  con- 
tracted; a  remarkable  quickness  of  hearing  is  a  common 
symptom  of  this  disease,  as  is  also  a  great  throbbing  of  the 
arteries  in  the  neck  and  temples;  a  constant  trembling,  sup- 
pression of  the  urine,  a  total  want  of  sleep,  and  a  grinding  of 
the  teeth,  w^hich  may  be  considered  as  a  kind  of  convulsion. 

The  Brain. 

Referring1  again  to  the  analomy.  we  find  that  the  brain, 
the  great  dynamo  which  generates  the  forces  that  control 
the  system,  is  contained  in  the  cavity  of  the  cranium,  and, 


OSTEOPATHY.  Ior 

to  perform  the  varied  tasks  imposed  upon  it,  must  be  bounti- 
fully supplied  with  arterial  blood,  which  must  circulate  freely 
and  return  quickly  to  the  heart  through  an  unobstructed 
channel.  The  blood  leaves  the  arch  of  the  aorta  through 
the  innominate  artery,  and  ascends  obliquely  to  the  upper 
border  of  the  right  sterno-clavicular  articulation,  where  it 
divides  into  the  right  common  carotid  and  right  subclavian 
arteries,  the  latter  supplying  the  right  arm,  while  the  com- 
mon carotid  passes  obliquely  upward  from  behind  the  sterno- 
clavicular  articulation  to  a  level  with  the  upper  border  of 
the  thyroid  cartilage,  opposite  the  third  cervical  vertebra, 
where  it  divides  into  the  external  and  internal  carotid,  whose 
branches,  together  with  the  vertebral  artery,  supply  the 
brain.  As  these  arteries  and  the  corresponding  veins  must 
pass  through  a  network  of  muscles  to  reach  their  destination, 
the  great  mystery  is  that  we  are  ever  free  from  headache 
caused  by  an  obstruction  to  their  free  flow. 

Causes  of  Brain  Fever. 

Brain  fever,  usually  fatal  when  treated  by  the  old 
methods,  can  be  traced  directly  to  a  contraction  of  the  mus- 
cles of  the  neck,  obstructing  the  returning  blood.  With 
the  heart  still  pumping  the  blood  into  the  brain  and  the 
escape  cut  off,  do  you  wonder  at  brain  fever,  or  can  you 
doubt  for  an  instant  that  to  remove  the  obstruction,  allow- 
ing the  pent-up  venous  blood  to  escape  down  its  proper 
channel,  would  cure  the  disease? 

We  have  yet  to  find  a  case  of  brain  fever  that,  if  taken 
in  any  reasonable  time,  can  not  be  instantly  relieved,  and 
in  a  comparatively  short  time  cured,  by  our  brain  fever 
treatment.  We  trust  that  not  only  every  person  who  reads 
these  pages,  but  the  medical  fraternity  in  particular,  will 
try  this  method,  as,  if  it  is  generally  adopted,  it  will  save 
hundreds  of  lives  annuallv. 


102  OSTEOPATHY. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Place  one  hand  under  the  chin,  the  other  under 
the  back  of  the  head,  and  pull  gently,  rotating  the  head  as 
far  as  possible  from  side  to  side,  the  object  being  to  strelrli 
all  the  muscles  of  the  neck  (see  cut  4). 

2d.  Pull  gently  on  the  head  (being  very  careful  not  to 
rotate  it)  until  sufficient  strength  is  used  to  move  the  body. 

3d.  With  the  fingers  move  all  the  flesh  and  muscles 
of  the  neck  and  throat,  working  gently  but  deep. 

4th.  Kaise  the  arm  high  above  the  head  (see  cut  14) 
with  one  hand,  with  the  fingers  of  the  other  pressing  hard 
between  the  spine  and  scapula  (shoulder-blade),  beginning 
at  the  upper  border  of  the  scapula.  Lower  the  arm  with  a 
backward  motion,  and  repeat,  moving  the  fingers  down  one 
inch  each  time  until  the  lower  angle  of  the  scapula  is  readied. 
Treat  the  other  side  in  a  similar  manner. 

5th.  Hold  the  vaso-motor  center,  one  hand  on  each 
side  of  the  neck,  the  fingers  almost  meeting  close  to  the 
head  (cut  5),  and  in  five  minutes  your  patient  will  be  asleep 
and  out  of  danger.  In  critical  cases  this  treatment  may  be 
repeated  as  often  as  circumstances  seem  to  require.  Once 
in  six  hours  is  usually  all  that  is  necessary.  The  vaso-motor 
center  may  be  held  at  any  time,  and  always  gives  relief. 

Of  the  many  cases  treated  by  us,  we  will  mention  that  of 
a  gentleman  of  Baxter  Springs,  Kansas,  who  was  delirious 
when  we  reached  his  bedside,  and  had  been  given  up  by  the 
family  physician.  After  a  treatment  that  lasted  not  over 
ten  minutes,  his  wife,  bending  over  the  couch,  said  to  him: 
"Ben,  how  do  you  feel?"  He  replied:  ''Better,  you  bet!" 
turned  over,  and  went  to  sleep  for  the  first  time  in  days.  He 
improved  rapidly,  and  in  two  weeks  had  entirely  recovered. 

We  are  perfectly  satisfied  that  brain  fever,  if  treated 
in  time  by  these  never-failing  principles,  is  no  more  to  be 
dreaded  than  a  bad  cold. 


Cut  14. 


Cut  15. 


OSTEOPATHY. 


HEADACHE. 


107 


Acting  on  these  great  principles,  headache,  not  caused 
by  fevers,  the  stomach,  or  the  uterus,  can  be  almost  instantly 
cured  by  stretching  the  neck  and  a  pressure  on  the  nerves 
at  the  base  of  the  occipital  bone. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  right  hand  on  the  back  of  the  patient's 
neck,  the  thumb  on  one  side  and  the  fingers  on  the  other, 
close  to  the  head;  place  the  left  hand  on  the  forehead,  tipping 
the  head  backward,  gently,  lifting  quite  strongly  with  the 
right  arm,  while  rotating  the  head  gently  from  side  to  side 
(see  cut  15). 

2d.  Standing  in  front  of  the  patient  and  tilting  the 
head  backward,  gently  hold  the  vaso-motor  center  (cut  16). 

3d.  Place  one  hand  on  the  forehead,  the  other  upon 
the  back  of  the  head,  and  press  for  a  moment,  hard. 

4th.  Standing  behind  the  patient,  with  one1  hand  on 
each  side  of  the  forehead,  make  five  or  six  quick  strokes. 

5th.  Place  one  finger  on  each  temple,  and,  while  press- 
ing, gently  move  the  fingers  from  right  to  left  with  a  circular 
motion. 

Gth.  With  the  right  hand  raise  patient's  right  arm  high 
above  the  head,  with  the  thumb  of  the  left  hand  between 
the  spine  and  the  scapula,  beginning  at  its  upper  angle, 
moving  the  muscles  upward  with  a  strong  pressure  at  the 
same  instant  (see  cut  14). 

This  treatment  will  not  occupy  over  ten  minutes.  First, 
second,  and  third  will  cure  any  ordinary  headache,  and  the 
entire  treatment  will  cure  any  case  of  headache,  no  matter 
how  severe,  if  not  caused  by  fevers,  the  stomach,  or  the 
uterus,  in  from  five  to  ten  minutes. 

Of  the  scores  of  cases  cured  by  us,  we  will  mention  the 


108  OSTEOPATHY. 

case  of  a  lady  of  Scammon,  Kansas,  who  would  have  an 
attack  of  nervous  headache  once  each  week,  lasting  from 
two  to  four  days;  she  suffered  intense  pain,  the  muscles 
contracting  until  they  drew  the  head  backward  upon  the 
neck.  At  these  times  electricity,  hypodermic  injections,  and 
even  chloroform,  had  failed  to  give  relief.  Being  anxious 
to  put  our  method  to  the  severest  test,  we  undertook  her 
case,  and  were  even  more  successful  than  we  had  dared  to 
hope.  In  ten  minutes  she  was  sleeping  quietly,  apparently 
free  from  pain.  In  the  morning  a  second  light  treatment 
was  given,  which  gave  her  complete  relief,  and  the  continua- 
tion of  the  treatments  for  one  month  effected  a  permanent 
cure. 

NERVOUS  HEADACHE. 
Treatment. 

In  addition  to  our  headache  treatment,  place  the  patient 
on  the  face,  and  with  the  thumbs,  beginning  at  the  neck,  press 
gently  the  entire  length  of  the  dorsal  vertebrae,  after  which, 
if  the  patient  has  retired,  hold  the  vaso-motor  center  a 
moment  (cut  5),  and  in  a  few  minutes  your  patient  will 
be  asleep. 

SICK  HEADACHE. 

Sick  headache  being  caused  by  a  reflex  action  of  the 
pneumogastric  and  splanchnic  nerves,  the  stomach  is  at  fault; 
we  must  first  reach  that  organ  through  the  splanchnic  nerves. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  the  back,  and,  reaching  over 
as  in  cut  8,  with  the  fingers  pressing  hard  on  each  side  of  the 
spine,  beginning  between  the  lower  angle  of  the  scapula  and 
ending  as  low  as  the  last  dorsal  vertebra,  lift  the  patient 


Cut  16. 


OSTEOPATHY. 


Ill 


gently  with  your  fingers,  then,  moving  down  the  breadth 
of  the  hands,  repeat  the  application,  thus  desensitizing  the 
splanchnic  nerves. 

2d.  Press  gently  at  first,  then  gradually  harder,  over 
the  pit  of  the  stomach. 

3d.  Give  our  regular  headache  treatment.  It  will  take 
from  ten  to  fifteen  minutes  to  give  this  treatment,  at  which 
time  the  patient  will  be  improving,  although  it  may  be 
some  time  before  the  pain  entirely  abates. 

A  continuation  of  this  treatment  every  second  day  will 
cure  the  most  aggravated  cases  of  chronic  sick  headache. 

Pain  in  the  top  of  the  head  in  women  is  always  caused 
by  female  troubles,  and  will  be  discussed  at  length  under 
that  head. 

THE  DIAPHRAGM. 

The  diaphragm  is  the  principal  muscle  of  inspiration, 
placed  obliquely  at  the  junction  of  the  upper  with  the  middle 
third  of  the  trunk,  and  separating  the  thorax  from  the  abdo- 
men, forming  the  floor  of  the  former  cavity  and  the  roof  of 
the  latter.  When  in  a  condition  of  rest,  the  muscle  presents 
a  domed  surface  with  the  concave  toward  the  abdomen ;  when 
the  fibers  contract,  they  become  less  arched,  or  nearly 
straight,  and  in  consequence  the  level  of  the  chest  wall  is 
lowered,  the  vertical  diameter  of  the  chest  being  proportion- 
ally increased,  thus  permitting  the  lungs  to  fill  with  air; 
when,  at  the  end  of  the  inspiration,  the  diaphragm  relaxes, 
the  thoracic  walls  return  to  their  natural  position  in  con- 
sequence of  their  elastic  reaction  and  of  the  elasticity  and 
weight  of  the  displaced  viscera.  In  all  expulsive  acts  the 
diaphragm  is  called  into  action;  thus  before  sneezing,  cough- 
ing, laughing,  crying,  or  vomiting  a  deep  inspiration  takes 
place.  The  phrenic  nerve,  which  may  be  reached  by  a  pres* 


H2  OSTEOPATHY. 

sure  in  front  of  the  third,  fourth,  and  fifth  cervical  vertebrae, 
controls  the  action  of  the  diaphragm.  Thus  viewing  that 
great  muscle  of  inspiration  as  a  machine,  whose  action  is 
controlled  by  the  brain  through  the  phrenic  nerve,  we  are 
enabled  to  instantly  cure  hiccough. 

HICCOUGH. 

Hiccough  is  a  too  rapid  and  spasmodic  action  of  the 
diaphragm,  arising  from  any  cause  that  irritates  its  nervous 
fibers. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Stand  behind  the  patient  and  with  the  fingers  of 
each  hand  push  the  muscles  at  the  side  of  the  neck  forward 
and  press  gently  on  the  front  of  the  tranverse  processes  of 
the  third,  fourth,  and  fifth  cervical  vertebrae. 

2d.  Place  the  knee  between  the  patient's  shoulders  and 
raise  the  arms  high  above  the  head,  lifting  strongly  (cut  2). 

This  will  instantly  cure  any  case  of  hiccough  not  caused 
by  approaching  death. 

FEVERS. 

Fevers  in  any  of  their  various  forms  can  be  greatly 
benefited  and  usually  cured  by  au  application  of  some  or 
all  of  the  following  principles,  as  the  case  seems  to  require: 

1st.  Should  the  patient  be  constipated,  flush  the  bowels 
and  give  constipation  treatment. 

2d.  Should  there  be  diarrhea,  the  bowels  should  be 
checked  as  in  flux. 

3d.     Often  a  general  treatment  gives  immediate  relief. 

4th.  When  there  is  a  pain  in  the  head,  the  headache 
treatment  should  be  always  given. 


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5th.  Always  in  fever  hold  the  vaso-motor  center  (cut  5) 
,1  few  moments,  as  this  never  fails  to  reduce  the  fever  and 
give  immediate  relief. 

While  a  general  treatment  should  not  be  given  oftener 
than  once  each  day,  the  vaso-motor  center  may  be  held  a  few 
moments  at  any  time.  This  part  of  the  treatment  should 
never  be  omitted,  even  if  a  physician  is  called,  as  it  will  in 
no  way  interfere  with  his  medicine  and  gives  more  relief 
than  all  his  drugs. 

HAY  FEVER  (SUMMER  CATARRH). 

Symptoms. 

The  symptoms  are  those  of  an  ordinary  catarrh,  to 
which  those  of  asthma  are  superadded.  There  is  itching  of 
the  forehead,  eyes,  nose,  and  ears,  much  general  irritability 
and  lassitude,  sneezing,  profuse  discharge  from  the  nose, 
tightness  of  chest,  difficult  breathing  and  cough,  pricking 
sensations  in  the  throat,  general  depression,  etc. 

Treatment. 

1st.     General  treatment  of  the  neck. 
2d.    Asthma  treatment. 

Treatment  should  be  given  every  other  day  for  a  few 
days,  when  the  hay  fever  will  entirely  disappear. 

ACUTE  RHEUMATISM. 

Symptoms. 

Acute  rheumatism  is  usually  ushered  in  with  fever  and 
inflammation  about  one  or  more  of  the  larger  joints,  the 
shoulder,  elbow,  knee,  or  ankle  usually  being  first  affected. 
MX  posed  joints  appear  to  be  more  prone  to  attacks  than  those 

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OSTEOPATH?. 


that  are  covered,  the  larger  more  frequently  than  the  smaller, 
and  the  small  joints  of  the  hand  more  frequently  than  those 
of  the  feet.  The  affected  joints  are  swollen,  surrounded  by 
a  rose-colored  blush,  and  acutely  painful ;  the  pain  has  many 
degrees  of  intensity,  generally  abates  somewhat  in  the  day, 
but  is  aggravated  at  night,  and  in  all  cases  is  increased  by 
pressure,  so  that  the  touch  of  the  nurse  or  weight  of  the 
bedclothes  can  scarcely  be  borne. 

CHRONIC  RHEUMATISM. 

This  sometimes  follows  the  acute  form,  at  other  times 
coming  on  quite  independently  of  any  previous  attack.  In 
time  the  affected  limbs  lose  their  power  of  motion  and 
lameness  results,  the  hip-  and  knee-joints  being  most  often 
affected.  Sometimes  there  is  emaciation  of  the  muscles, 
sometimes  permanent  contraction  of  a  limb  or  bony  stiffness 
of  the  joints.  This  form  of  the  disease  is  the  result  of  the 
uncured  acute  form;  it  may  be  limited  to  one  part  of  the 
body  or  extend  to  several,  and  may  be  fixed  or  shifting. 

Cause  of  Rheumatism. 

Rheumatism  in  its  varied  forms  yields  readily  to  this 
method  of  treatment,  and  I  think  I  am  justified  in  saying 
that  there  never  was  and  never  will  be  a  case  of  rheumatism 
that  could  not  be  benefited  by  this  treatment,  and  perma- 
nently and  quickly  cured  if  taken  in  any  reasonable  time. 

Inflammatory  rheumatism  of  the  limbs  is  caused  by  a 
contraction  of  the  muscles  of  the  thigh,  obstructing  either 
the  femoral,  iliac,  or  long  sapheiious  veins.  As  the  waters 
of  a  river,  if  obstructed  between  high,  strong  banks,  may  not 
cause  any  particular  trouble  at  that  point,  but  will  back 
up,  flooding  the  lower  country,  so  this  river  of  blood,  while 
causing  no  great  inconvenience  at  the  obstruction,  backs  up, 


OSTEOPATHY.  II5 

distending  the  smaller  veins  and  capillaries.  The  heart, 
still  pumping,  finally  feels  the  pressure,  and  we  have  rheu- 
matism of  the  heart,  while  the  stagnant  blood  soon  becomes 
feverish,  and  we  have  inflammatory  rheumatism,  first  below 
and  finally  above  the  obstruction.  Laying  aside  all  prejudice 
and  skepticism,  and  looking  at  the  matter  from  an  unbiased 
and  common-sense  standpoint,  would  it  not  be  as  sensible 
to  throw  medicine  into  the  river  to  remove  the  cause  of  a 
flood  as  to  put  it  into  the  stomach  to  free  the  obstructed 
vein? 

If  we  may  be  permitted  to  once  more  refer  to  the  anat- 
omy, we  will  turn  to  the  stomach  and  endeavor  to  follow  a 
dose  of  medicine  on  its  journey  from  the  stomach  to  its 
destination  at  the  femoral  or  saphenous  vein,  first  asserting, 
however,  that  the  same  quantity  of  the  same  medicine  never 
has  the  same  effect  twice  on  the  same  individual,  from  the 
fact  that  the  stomach  is  never  found  twice  in  exactly  the 
same  condition,  containing  as  it  does  different  foods  in 
different  stages  of  digestion.  Thus  your  doctor  must  begin 
by  guessing  what  to  give  and  how  much  to  give,  and  con- 
tinue guessing  until  you  accidentally  stretch  the  contracted 
muscle  and  commence  to  recover,and  then  he  guesses  that  his 
medicine  did  the  work.  There  will  be  no  guess  work,  however, 
in  tracing  the  medicine  from  the  stomach  and  asserting 
what  portion  (if  any)  reaches  the  affected  part.  Passing 
from  the  mouth  through  the  oesophagus,  it  first  reaches  the 
cardiac  end  of  the  stomach.  While  in  the  mouth  the  gastric 
juice  commences  to  flow,  and  is  greatly  increased  by  the  time 
the  drug  gets  to  the  stomach.  Being  kept  in  motion  in  a 
large  quantity  of  liquid,  in  from  fifteen  to  thirty  minutes 
it  reaches  the  pyloric  orifice  of  the  stomach  and  is  emptied 
into  the  duodenum,  where  it  is  mixed  with  the  pancreatic 
juice  from  the  pancreas  and  the  bile  from  the  liver.  As  these 
juices,  together  with  the  gastric  juice  of  the  stomach,  are 


I:6  OSTEOPATHY.. 

capable  of  changing  the  entire  character  of  almost  any  sub- 
stance on  which  they  are  allowed  to  act,  it  is  not  only 
possible,  but  probable,  that  they  also  change  the  character 
of  the  drug  to  a  greater  or  less  extent,  thus  adding  to  the 
system  of  guessing  indulged  in  by  the  medical  practitioner. 
The  duodenum  and  upper  portion  of  the  small  intestine  are 
lined  with  a  velvety  substance,  termed  villi,  which,  immedi- 
ately upon  the  entrance  of  any  substance  into  the  intestine, 
passes  all  particles  of  richness  through  the  walls  of  the 
intestine  into  the  thoracic  duct,  permitting  all  refuse  matter 
to  pass  on  to  the  rectum,  It  is  possible  that  here  a  goodly 
portion  of  the  drug  is  refused  by  the  villi.  and  is  passed  with 
the  f;iM-es;  a  portion,  however,  has  reached  the  thoracic  duct. 
The  thoracic  duct  conveys  the  great  mass  of  lymph  and 
chyle  into  the  blood.  It  varies  in  length  from  fifteen  to 
eighteen  inches  in  the  adult,  and  extends  from  the  second 
lumbar  vertebra  to  the  root  of  the  neck;  it  commences  in 
the  abdomen  by  a  triangular  dilatation,  the  receptaculum 
chyli,  which  is  situated  upon  the  front  of  the  body  of  the 
second  lumbar  vertebra,  to  the  right  side  and  behind  the 
aorta,  it  ascends  into  the  thorax  through  the  aortic  opening 
in  the  diaphragm,  opposite  the  fourth  dorsal  vertebra;  it 
inclines  toward  the  left  side  and  ascends  behind  the  arch  of 
the  aorta  to  the  left  side  of  the  oesophagus,  and  behind  the 
first  portion  of  the  left  subclavian  artery  to  the  upper  orifice 
of  the  thorax,  opposite  the  seventh  cervical  vertebra;  it  now 
curves  outward  and  then  downward  over  the  subclavian 
artery,  and  terminates  in  the  left  subclavian  vein. 

We  will  now  follow  what  remains  of  our  drug  through 
the  thoracic  duct  and  into  the  subclavian  vein  in  the  neck, 
opposite  the  seventh  cervical  vertebra.  It  next  passes  into 
the  innominate  artery,  which  empties  into  the  superior  vena 
cava,  through  which  it  reaches  the  heart,  and  is  immediately 


OSTEOPATHY.  ll~ 

pumped  through  the  pulmonary  artery  into  the  lungs,  from 
which  it  is  conveyed  through  the  pulmonary  veins  back  to 
the  heart,  from  where  it  is  distributed  equally  to  all  parts 
of  the  system.  How  much  (if  any)  ever  reaches  the  con- 
tracted muscle  it  will  indeed  be  difficult  to  determine. 

In  discussing  this  subject  we  are  reminded  of  the  story 
of  an  Irishman  with  rheumatism;  his  physician  wrote  him 
a  prescription  and  instructed  him  to  rub  it  on.  The  Irish- 
man, in  his  ignorance,  rubbed  his  leg  with  the  paper,  and  he 
was  immediately  relieved;  thus  demonstrating  that  there  is 
more  virtue  in  the  rubbing  advised  in  the  liniments  than  in 
the  liniments  themselves. 

Now,  believing  that  our  readers  will  understand  our 
reasons  for  taking  the  position  that  man  is  a  machine  and 
should  be  treated  accordingly,  especially1  in  rheumatic 
troubles,  we  will  return  to  the  treatment  of  this  disease  when 
located  in  the  lower  extremities. 

INFLAMMATORY  RHEUMATISM. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  the  back,  and,  grasping  the 
ankle  firmly  with  the  right  hand  (should  the  right  limb  be 
affected),  place  the  left  on  the  knee  and  flex  the  limb  slowly 
and  gently  as  far  as  possible  without  too  much  suffering. 
Rotating  it  gently  from  right  to  left,  extend  the  leg,  and  it 
will  be  found  that  it  can  be  returned  to  its  former  position 
with  apparent  ease;  bend  it  now  another  inch  and  straighten. 

2d.  Place  one  hand  on  each  side  of  the  thigh,  close  to 
the  body,  and  with  a  firm  pressure  move  all  the  muscles  from 
right  to  left  and  from  left  to  right  (see  cut  13)  the  entire 
length  of  the  limb,  very  gently  at  first,  but  stronger  as  the 
patient  becomes  used  to  the  treatment. 


Il8  OSTEOPATHY. 

3d.  Grasping  the  foot,  pull  slowly,  at  the  same  time 
rotating  the  linib,  using  as  much  strength  as  the  patient  can 
stand. 

4th.  Place  the  patient  on  the  side,  and,  beginning  a  I 
the  first  lumbar  vertebra,  with  the  fingers  close  to  the  spine, 
move  the  muscles  upward  and  outward  down  as  low  as  the 
lower  border  of  the  sacrum. 

This  treatment  should  be  given  every  other  day,  and, 
if  care  is  taken,  it  need  not  be  very  painful,  and  will  certainly 
cure  the  most  acute  case  of  inflammatory  rheumatism  in 
from  two  to  six  weeks. 

Of  the  numerous  cases  cured  by  us,  we  will  mention 
that  of  a  gentleman  at  Webb  City,  Missouri,  who  had  been 
given  up  by  the  medical  doctors  and  in  whose  case  the  rheu- 
matism not  only  extended  the  entire  length  of  the  spinal 
column  and  right  limb,  but  was  felt  perceptibly  in  the  hear). 
Ten  days  after  the  first  treatment  was  given  he  walk  (Ml 
without  his  crutches,  and  in  six  weeks  resumed  his  usual 
vocation,  entirely  cured. 

Another  gentleman  of  the  same  city,  whose  right  limb 
was  double  its  natural  size  from  this  disease,  was  cured  in 
five  days. 

Founded  as  it  is  upon  common  sense  and  scientific 
principles,  this  system  of  treatment,  if  properly  administered, 
is  absolutely  infallible. 

RHEUMATISM  IN  THE  ARMS. 

In  this  trouble  we  find  the  muscles  of  the  shoulder  at 
fault,  obstructing  either  the  brachial,  axillary,  or  subclavian 
veins. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Raise  the  arm  as  high  and  strongly  as  possible, 
but  slowly,  above  the  head.  With  the  thumb  of  the  disen- 


Cut  17. 


OSTEOPATHY.  I2I 

gaged  hand  (beginning  at  the  upper  border  of  the  scapula) 
press  upward  on  the  muscles  between  the  scapula  and  spine, 
while  raising  the  arm  (see  cut  14).  Lower  the  arm  with  a 
backward  motion,  move  the  thumb  down  an  inch,  and  again 
raise  the  arm,  repeating  until  the  lower  border  of  the  scapula 
is  reached. 

2d.  Place  one  hand  on  the  shoulder,  pushing  the  muscles 
toward  its  point;  with  the  other  grasp  the  patient's  elbow, 
and,  while  pressing  hard  with  both  hands,  move  the  arm 
forward  and  upward  around  the  head  (cut  17). 

3d.  Grasp  the  arm  with  one  hand  close  to  the  shoulder; 
with  the  other  hold  the  arm  from  turning  and  move  the 
muscles  from  right  to  left  and  from  left  to  right  the  entire 
length  of  the  arm. 

4th.     Stretch  the  arm,  pulling  slowly  but  very  strongly. 

This  treatment  not  onty  cures  any  form  of  rheumatism, 
but  paralysis  and  various  forms  of  blood  disorders  in  that 
member. 


RHEUMATISM  OF  THE  ENTIRE  SYSTEM. 

When  inflammatory  rheumatism  extends  over  the  entire 
system,  the  spinal  column  as  well  as  the  extremities  should 
be  treated. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  the  side,  and,  using  the  arm 
as  a  lever  (see  cut  3),  beginning  with  the  fingers  at  the  base 
of  the  neck,  close  to  the  spine,  move  the  muscles  upward  and 
outward  the  entire  length  of  the  spinal  column. 

2d.  Place  one  hand  under  the  chin,  the  other  under 
the  back  of  the  head;  have  an  assistant  take  the  feet,  and 
pull  steadily  as  hard  as  the  patient  can  stand. 


I22  OSTEOPATHY. 

It  is  indeed  surprising  how  quickly  a  patient  responds 
to  this  treatment. 

SCIATIC  RHEUMATISM. 

Sciatic  rheumatism  may  be  caused  either  by  a  pressure 
on  the  nerve  itself  in  or  near  the  thigh,  or  in  the  spine  at  the 
origin  of  the  nerves  that  form  the  sacral  plexus,  of  which  the 
great  sacro-sciatic  nerve  is  a  continuation. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Flex  the  leg  (with  one  hand  grasping  the  ankle, 
the  other  resting  on  the  knee)  as  far  as  possible  toward  the 
chest,  slowly  but  strongly  (cut  6). 

2d.  Extend  the  leg,  turning  the  knee  in,  the  foot  out 
(cut  7). 

3d.  With  one  hand  on  each  side  of  the  thigh,  move  all 
the  muscles  from  right  to  left  and  vice  versa,very  deep  (cut  13). 

4th.  Place  the  patient  on  the  side,  and,  beginning  at 
the  last  dorsal  vertebra,  with  the  fingers  close  to  the  spine, 
move  the  muscles  upward  and  outward  from  the  spine  to 
the  end  of  the  sacrum. 

This  treatment  will  cure  the  most  stubborn  cases  of 
sciatic  rheumatism  in  from  two  to  six  weeks. 

LAME  BACK. 

Lame  back,  which  may  be  traced  to  many  different 
causes,  can  be  invariably  cured  by  our  method;  acute  cases 
instantly,  and  chronic  cases  of  many  years'  standing  by  a 
continuation  of  the  treatment. 

Treatment. 
1st.     Place  the  patient  on  the  side,  and,  using  the  limb 


Cut  18. 


OSTEOPATHY.  125 

as  a  lever  (cut  18),  with  the  fingers  close  to  the  spiiie,  com- 
mencing a  little  above  the  last  lumbar  vertebra  (small  of 
the  back),  move  the  muscles  up  and  out  from  the  spine  with 
each  upward  motion  of  the  limb. 

2d.  Extend  the  limb,  move  the  hands  down  one  inch, 
and  repeat  until  the  lower  part  of  the  sacrum  is  reached. 

3d.  Place  the  patient  on  the  back,  and,  grasping  the 
ankle,  flex  one  limb  after  the  other  as  far  as  possible  toward 
the  chest,  thus  stretching  the  muscles  of  the  back  (cut  6). 

4th.  Place  the  patient  on  the  face,  and,  with  thumbs 
on  each  side  of  the  spine,  beginning  at  the  second  lumbar 
vertebra,  press  rather  hard,  moving  the  muscles  upward; 
move  the  thumbs  down  one  inch,  and  repeat  until  you  have 
reached  the  second  sacral  vertebra;  being  very  careful  to 
work  thoroughly  and  deeply  on  each  side  of  and  a  little  below 
the  last  lumbar  vertebra  (cut  19),  as  it  is  here  the  trouble 
is  usually  found. 

Here  also  is  found  the  seat  of  kidney  disease  and  female 
troubles.  It  is  noticeable  in  those  cases  that  the  patient 
usually  has  a  weak  back,  and  it  has  been  demonstrated 
beyond  the  shadow  of  a  doubt  that,  working  on  these  princi- 
ples, not  only  the  back,  but  the  accompanying  disorders,  can 
be  entirely  cured. 

Of  the  many  cases  of  lame  backs  treated  by  us,  we  will 
mention  that  of  a  gentleman  of  Baxter  Springs,  Kansas.  He 
was  assisted  into  our  office,  and  told  how,  ten  years  before, 
he  was  afflicted  in  a  similar  manner,  being  bedfast  for  six 
months  and  on  crutches  two  years.  We  gave  him  a  treat- 
ment, not  occupying  over  two  minutes  and  curing  him 
instantly. 

We  might  also  mention  the  case  of  a  gentleman  of 
Neutral,  Kansas,  cured  by  us  in  two  weeks,  after  having 
been  given  up  by  the  medical  fraternity. 


1 26  OSTEOPATHY. 

ECZEMA. 

Symptoms. 

Inflammation  of  the  skin,  more  or  less  redness,  and 
closely  packed  vesicles,  not  larger  than  a  pinhead,  which 
run  together,  burst,  and  exude  a  starch-like  fluid.  This  dis- 
ease usually  appears  on  the  scalp,  behind  the  ears,  on  the 
face,  forearm,  or  the  legs. 

Eczema  is  caused  by  a  contraction  that  holds  the  venous 
blood  in  the  capillaries  of  any  given  part,  thus  causing  a 
disease  of  the  skin.  It  can  be  readily  cured  by  kneading  the 
flesh  and  stretching  the  muscles  between  the  eruptions  and 
the  heart. 

Among  the  many  cases  of  this  trouble  cured  by  us,  we 
will  mention  a  lady  of  Galena,  Kansas.  The  eczema  was 
rapidly  advancing  toward  the  body  on  the  right  limb,  and 
all  known  methods  had  failed  to  give  relief.  By  giving  the 
treatment  prescribed  for  inflammatory  rheumatism,  thus 
freeing  the  circulation  of  the  blood,  she  was  cured  in  one 
month. 

VARICOSE  VEINS. 

Symptoms. 

The  affected  veins  are  dilated,  tortuous,  knotted,  of  a 
dull  leaden  or  purplish  blue  color,  with  much  discoloration 
of  the  parts  and  some  swelling  of  the  limb;  if  a  great  many 
small  cutaneous  veins  are  alone  affected,  they  present  the 
appearance  of  a  close  network;  the  enlarged  veins  and  local 
swelling  diminish  after  taking  the  horizontal  position. 

Varicose  veins  are  caused  by  a  stoppage  of  the  veins, 
usually  by  a  pressure  on  the  long  saphenous  or  femoral  vein, 
and  can  be  readily  cured  by  stretching  the  muscles  of  the 


Cut  19. 


OSTEOPATHY. 

thigh  and  otherwise  treating  the  limbs  as  in  inflammatory 
rheumatism,  being  very  careful  in  handling  the  flesh  below 
the  knee. 

We  will  mention  our  first  case  of  varicose  veins  to  prove 
to  our  readers  how  easily  this  disease  may  be  cured  by  view- 
ing the  human  system  as  a  machine  and  the  arteries  and 
veins  as  rivers  of  blood,  easily  obstructed.  The  veins  of  the 
right  limb  below  the  knee  were  almost  bursting,  while  the 
dead,  stagnant  blood  in  the  capillaries  formed  sores,  on 
which  scales  formed,  occasionally  dropping  off,  exposing  the 
raw,  bleeding  surface  beneath.  Every  known  method  had 
been  tried  and  failed  during  the  ten  years  he  had  suffered 
with  this  apparently  incurable  disease.  The  long  saphenous 
vein,  which  empties  into  the  femoral  vein  in  the  thigh,  and 
whose  branches  gather  and  return  the  venous  blood  from  the 
lower  part  of  the  leg,  gorged,  knotted,  and  distended  as  largo 
as  the  little  finger,  could  be  traced  to  the  obstruction,  a  con- 
t. 'acted  muscle  in  the  thigh.  It  almost  seems  incredible 
that,  where  its  cause  was  so  apparent,  for  years  the  medical 
fraternity  would  work  on  the  effect,  encasing  the  limb  in  a 
rubber  stocking  to  strengthen  the  bursting  veins,  while 
throwing  medicine  into  the  river  above,  with  some  object 
in  view,  unknown  to  the  writer  and  possibly  equally  unknown 
to  themselves.  We  gave  the  gentleman  four  treatments, 
stretching  and  freeing  all  the  muscles  of  the  thigh  and  start- 
ing the  blood  up  the  long  saphenous  vein.  His  limb  immedi- 
ately became  easier.  At  this  time  we  were  called  to  southern 
Kansas,  and  after  a  year,  when  we  had  almost  forgotten 
the  incident,  we  met  our  old  friend  in  a  small  Missouri  town, 
entirely  recovered. 


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OSTEOPATHY. 


THE  THYKOID  GLAND. 


The  thyroid  gland  bears  much  resemblance  in  structure 
to  other  glandular  organs,  and  was  formerly  classified  to- 
gether with  the  thyinus,  suprarenal  capsules,  and  spleen, 
under  the  head  of  ductless  glands,  since,  when  fully 
developed,  it  has  no  excretory  duct.  The  thyroid  varies  in 
weight  from  one  to  two  ounces.  It  is  larger  in  the  female 
than  in  the  male,  and  slightly  increases  in  size  during  men- 
struation. It  is  situated  at  the  upper  part  of  the  trachea, 
and  consists  of  two  lateral  tabes,  placed  one  on  each  side 
of  that  tube  and  connected  by  a  narrow  transverse  portion, 
the  isthmus.  The  arteries  supplying  the  thyroid  are  the 
superior  and  inferior  thyroid,  and  sometimes  a  branch  from 
the  innominate  artery  or  arch  of  the  aorta.  The  arteries  are 
remarkable  for  their  large  size  and  frequent  anastomosis; 
the  veins  form  a  plexus  on  the  surface  of  the  gland  and  on 
the  front  of  the  trachea,  from  which  rise  the  superior,  middle, 
and  inferior  thyroid  veins.  The  two  former  terminate  in 
the  internal  jugular,  the  latter  in  the  innominate  vein. 

GOITRE. 

Symptoms. 

The  thyroid  gland  is  subject  to  enlargement,  which  is 
called  goitre.  For  the  relief  of  these  growths  various  opera- 
tions have  been  resorted  to,  such  as  the  injection  of  tincture 
of  iodine  or  perchloride  of  iron,  ligature  of  the  thymus,  and 
extirpation  of  a  part  or  the  whole  of  the  thyroid  gland.  The 
thyroid  gland  having  an  unusually  large  blood-supply,  it  is 
but  reasonable  to  suppose  that  an  obstruction  to  its  veins 
would  necessitate  an  enlargement  of  the  gland,  or  goitre.  It 
is  equally  reasonable  that  if  the  obstruction  is  removed,  the 


Cut  20. 


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goitre  will  soon  be  taken  up  by  absorption  and  disappear. 
Acting  on  these  principles,  we  have  cured  hundreds  of 
goitres.  It  will  be  observed  that  the  clavicle  (collar-bone) 
is  not  nearly  as  prominent  in  people  troubled  with  goitre  as 
in  those  not  afflicted)  with  this  disease.  The  contracting 
muscles  and  depressed  clavicle,  which  are  obstructing  the 
escape  of  the  blood  from  the  thyroid  gland,  cause  goitre. 
Raising  the  clavicle  and  stretching  these  muscles  cures 
goitre,  thus  proving  our  theory  to  be  correct. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Stand  behind  the  patient,  and,  extending  the  left 
arm  around  the  neck,  place  the  left  thumb  under  the  right 
clavicle  (collar-bone)  at  about  its  middle;  grasp  the  patient's 
right  wrist  with  the  disengaged  hand,  raise  the  arm  slowly 
above  the  head,  and  lower  with  a  backward  motion,  at  the 
same  time  springing  the  clavicle  up  with  the  thumb  of  the 
left  hand;  raise  the  left  clavicle  in  like  manner  (cut  20). 

2d.  Place  the  patient  on  the  back,  with  one  hand  under 
the  chin,  the  other  under  the  back  of  the  head;  pull  gently, 
rotating  the  head  in  any  direction  that  will  best  stretch  the 
muscles  in  the  front  and  sides  of  the  neck  (cut  4). 

3d.  Place  the  fingers  below  the  goitre,  pulling  it  upward 
and  kneading  it  gently. 

This  method  will  cure  in  from  two  to  six  weeks  any 
goitre  on  which  iodine  has  not  been  freely  used.  Treatment 
should  be  given  every  other  day,  and  will  not  occupy  over 
five  minutes'  time. 

FLESHY  TUMORS. 

Fleshy  tumors,  like  goitre,  are  caused  by  an  obstruction 
to  the  veins  draining  any  given  part,  and  are  easily  cured 
by  stretching  and  moving  all  the  flesh  and  muscles  in  the 


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immediate  vicinity,  and  kneading  and  moving  the  tumor  in 
all  directions. 

DISEASES  OF  THE  HEAD. 

Granulated  eyelids,  dripping  eyes,  inflammation  of  ihe 
eyes,  catarrh,  polypus  of  the  nose,  catarrhal  deafness  and 
roaring  in  the  head,  enlarged  tonsils,  mumps,  erysipelas  of 
the  face,  and  many  other  diseases  of  the  head,  are  caused 
by  a  contracted  condition  of  the  muscles  of  the  neck, 
obstructing  the  flow  of  the  venous  blood  on  its  return  journey 
to  the  heart.  The  circulation  being  thus  interrupted,  disease 
at  the  weakest  point  is  the  result.  To  remove  the  cause  by 
a  general  treatment  of  the  neck  is  but  the  work  of  a  moment, 
and  never  fails  to  effect  a  cure. 

General  Treatment  of  the  Neck. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  the  back,  with  one  hand  under 
the  chin  and  the  other  under  the  back  of  the  head ;  pull  gently, 
rotating  the  head  in  all  directions,  slowly  but  strongly, 
endeavoring  to  stretch  all  muscles  of  the  neck  (see  cut  4). 

2d.     Pull  slowly  on  the  head  until  the  body  moves. 

3d.  Draw  the  patient's  arms  slowly  but  very  strongly 
high  above  the  head. 

GRANULATED  EYELIDS. 

Symptoms. 

In  this  affection  the  conjunctiva!  mucous  membrane 
of  the  eye  is  raised  into  little  projections,  presenting  a  rough, 
irregular  appearance.  It  is  a  consequence  of  long-continued 
or  maltreated  inflammation,  and  if  not  cured,  it  may  in  time 
occasion  opacities  of  the  cornea  by  the  irritation  it  causes, 
followed  by  blindness. 


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OSTEOPATHY.  I37 

Treatment. 

1st.     General  treatment  of  the  neck. 

2d.  Standing  at  the  head  of  the  table,  with  the  index 
finger  work  gently,  but  as  deeply  as  possible,  moving  the 
muscles  and  pressing  under  the  edge  of  the  bone  entirely 
around  the  eye  (cut  21);  this  frees  the  circulation  and  gives 
immediate  relief. 

3d.  Pinch  the  eyelid  gently  wherever  granules  are 
formed,  thus  starting  a  natural  circulation. 

We  have  never  known  this  method  to  fail,  even  in  the 
worst  cases.  One  old  gentleman  at  Lewiston,  Missouri, 
was  cured  by  me  in  this  manner,  after  suffering  fifty  years, 
in  two  months'  time.  The  usual  time  required  for  an  ordinary 
case  is  from  two  to  four  weeks.  Treatment  should  be  given 
every  other  day. 

INFLAMMATION  OF  THE  EYES. 

Symptoms. 

Inflammation  of  the  eyes  often  comes  on  with  a  sensation 
as  if  sand  had  got  into  the  eyes.  In  some  instances  this 
complaint  proceeds  no  farther,  but  at  other  times  it  is  fol- 
lowed by  heat,  redness,  and  prickling,  witli  darting  pains. 

Treatment. 

1st.     General  treatment  of  the  neck. 

2d.  With  the  index  finger  work  gently  but  firmly  under 
the  edge  of  (he  bone  surrounding  the  eye,  thus  freeing  all 
ducts  and  glands,  and  also  starting  the  circulation  (cut  21). 

3d.  Place  the  fingers  on  the  patient's  temples,  and,  with 
a  circular  motion,  move  all  the  muscles  as  deeply  as  possible. 

Treatment  should  be  given  once  each   day.     This  will 


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cure  the  most  aggravated  case  of  inflammation  of  the  eyes 
in  a  few  days. 

DRIPPING  EYES. 

Dripping  eyes  are  usually  accompanied  with  a  catarrh  a  1 
difficulty  in  the  lachrymal  duct,  which  conveys  all  watery 
substances  from  the  eye  to  the  interior  of  the  nose.  Its 
obstruction  causes  the  overflow  at  the  eye;  we  must  there- 
fore cure  the  catarrh,  and  the  eyes  will  take  care  of 
themselves. 

Treatment. 

1st.     Give  the  general  treatment  for  the  neck. 

2d.  Free  all  the  muscles  around  the  eyes  as  in  inflam- 
mation and  granulation  of  the  eyes  (cut  21). 

3d.  Beginning  deep  in  the  corner  of  the  eye,  with  the 
thumb  on  one  side  of  the  nose,  the  index  finger  on  the  other, 
move  the  flesh  and  muscles  upward  and  downward  its  entire 
length. 

This  treatment  is  infallible,  cases  of  twenty  years'  stand- 
ing having  been  cured  by  us  in  one  month's  time.  Treatment 
should  be  given  every  other  day. 

CATARRH. 

Symptoms. 

This  disease  sometimes  prevails  epidemically,  and  it  is 
to  this  form  medical  writers  apply  the  term  "influenza,"while 
cases  that  occur  incidentally  are  called  catarrh,  or  cold. 
When  it  prevails  epidemically,  it  undoubtedly  depends  upon 
the  state  of  the  atmosphere,  though  in  some  cases  it  has  been 
attributed  to  contagion. 

In  general,  it  comes  on  with  a  dull  pain  or  sense  of  weight 


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in  the  forehead,  sometimes  preceded  by  a  slight  chill,  red- 
ness of  the  eyes,  and  fullness  and  heat  in  the  nostrils, 
which  is  soon  followed  by  a  discharge  of  thin  acrid  fluid  from 
the  nose,  together  with  soreness  in  the  windpipe,  hoarse- 
ness, frequent  sneezing,  dry  cough,  loss  of  apppetite,  and 
general  lassitude;  towards  evening  the  pulse  becomes  con- 
siderably quickened  and  a  slight  fever  arises. 

Treatment, 

1st.     General  treatment  of  the  neck. 

2d.  Beginning  deep  in  the  corner  of  the  eyes,  move 
the  muscles  upward  and  downward,  with  as  hard  a  pressure 
as  patient  can  stand,  the  entire  length  of  the  nose. 

3d.  Placing  one  hand  on  the  back  of  the  head,  the  other 
on  the  forehead,  press  very  hard,  moving  the  muscles  of  the 
forehead  in  all  directions,  especially  those  immediately  over 
the  eyes. 

Treat  each  day  for  one  week,  when  the  patient  will  be 
on  a  fair  way  to  recovery;  one  month's  treatment  will  cure 
the  most  stubborn  case. 

CATARRHAL  DEAFNESS  AND  ROARING  IN  THE 

HEAD. 

Catarrhal  deafness  can  be  always  benefited,  and  usually 
cured,  by  the  catarrh  treatment,  after  which  the  patient 
should  endeavor  to  breathe  while  holding  the  nose  and 
mouth,  thus  springing  the  drums  of  the  ear  and  starting  the 
circulation. 

POLYPUS  IN  THE  NOSE. 

Symptoms. 

When  the  polypus  is  located  in  the  nose,  there  is  a  nasal 
sound  in  the  voice,  the  patient  acquires  the  habit  of  keeping 


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his  mouth  open  to  facilitate  breathing,  there  is  difficulty 
of  swallowing  liquids,  the  nose  is  enlarged  externally  on  the 
affected  side,  and  on  looking  up  the  nostril  the  polypus  may 
be  seen.  In  consequence  of  the  stuffy  symptoms  which  a 
polypus  occasions,  it  may  at  first  be  mistaken  for  a  cold  in 
the  head;  but,  on  the  nose  being  violently  blown,  the  polypus 
descends  and  appears  near  the  orifice,  causing  the  obstruc- 
tion to  return,  contrary  to  the  usual  result  of  such  an 
operation. 

Treatment. 

General  treatment  of  the  neck  and  other  catarrhal  treat- 
ment once  each  day.  A  cure  is  guaranteed. 

MUMPS. 

Symptoms. 

At  first  there  is  a  feeling  of  stiffness  and  soreness  on 
moving  the  jaw,  and  the  child  complains  of  discomfiture  on 
eating;  indeed,  the  pain  caused  by  eating,  or  even  drinking, 
is  sometimes  agonizing.  The  glands  under  the  ear  soon 
begin  to  swell,  and  they  continue  to  be  sore  and  painful, 
with  more  or  less  fever  and  headache,  for  about  a  week. 
There  is  little  danger,  although  there  are  instances  in  which, 
from  exposure  to  cold  or  from  cold  applications,  the  disease 
has  been  transmitted  to  the  testicles  in  boys  and  to  Hit- 
breasts  of  girls. 

Treatment. 

General  and  very  thorough  treatment  of  the  neck  once 
each  day.  Instant  relief  and  a  cure  are  guaranteed. 


OSTEOPATHY.  I4I 

ENLARGEMENT  OF  THE  TONSILS. 

Enlargement  of  the  tonsils  may  be  of  two  kinds: 

1.  The  common  abscess,  occurring  in  inflammatory  sore 
throat. 

2.  Chronic    swelling,    generally    the    consequence    of 
previous  inflammation  of  the  gland  in  a  scrofulousi  person. 
They  often  become  so  large  as  to  impede  both  respiration 
and  swallowing. 

Treatment. 

General  treatment  of  the  neck  once  each  day.  A  cure 
is  guaranteed. 

ERYSIPELAS  IN  THE  FACE. 

Symptoms. 

Erysipelas  is  known  by  a  spreading,  inflammatory  red- 
ness of  the  skin,  with  considerable  puffy  swelling,  tenderness, 
burning,  painful  tingling,  and  tensions.  The  color  varies 
from  a  faint  red  to  a  dark  red  or  purplish  color,  becoming 
white  under  pressure,  but  resuming  its  former  color  at  the 
removal  of  the  pressure.  An  attack  is  usually  ushered  in 
witli  shivering,  languor,  headache,  nausea,  bilious  vomiting, 
and  the  ordinary  symptoms  of  inflammatory  fever,  ac- 
companied or  followed  by  inflammation  of  the  part  affected. 
When  erysipelas  attacks  the  face,it  nearly  always  commences 
at  the  side  of  the  nose  or  near  the  angle  of  the  eye. 

i  Treatment. 

General  and  very  thorough  treatment  of  the  neck.  In- 
stant relief  and  a  cure  are  guaranteed. 


I42  OSTEOPATHY. 


WHOOPING-COUGH. 

Symptoms. 

The  cough  is  accompanied  by  a  shrill,  reiterated  whoop; 
vomiting  is  also  a  frequent  incident.  It  is  contagious  under 
certain  circumstances,  which  are  not  well  understood.  The 
disease  comes  on  with  the  usual  symptoms  of  catarrh.  The 
whoop  or  sonorous  spasm  is  frequently  violent,  the  face 
becoming  turgid  and  purple  from  suffusion  and  the  eyeballs 
swollen  and  prominent.  The  paroxysms  at  first  recur  several 
times  during  the  day,  are  most  violent  toward  evening,  and 
least  so  during  the  night.  After  the  disease  has  continued 
some  time,  they  return  only  in  the  morning  and  evening;  and 
at  the  end  of  the  disease,  in  the  evening  only.  The  violence 
of  the  disease  varies  from  the  slightest  indisposition,  without 
feverishness,  to  the  severest  spasmodic  agitation,  attended 
with  high  and  dangerous  fever.  In  duration  it  varies  from 
one  week  to  one  year,  the  usual  period  ranging  from  three 
weeks  to  three  months, 

Treatment. 

1st.     General  treatment  of  the  neck. 

2d.  Place  the  patient  on  the  back,  and,  one  operator 
grasping  each  wrist,  raise  the  hands  high  above  the  head,  at 
the  same  time  placing  the  fingers  of  the  disengaged  hand 
between  the  patient's  shoulders,  close  to  the  spine,  at  the 
upper  border  of  the  scapula,  and  pressing  hard  as  the  arms 
are  drawn  slowly  up;  lower  the  arms  with  a  backward  mo- 
tion; move  the  fingers  one  inch  down  the  spine,  and  repent 
until  the  lower  border  of  the  scapula  is  reached  (cut  1). 

Treat  each  day  until  the  disease  is  cured. 


OSTEOPATHY. 


PNEUMONIA. 

Symptoms. 

Pneumonia  generally  comes  on  insidiously,  with  rest- 
lessness and  feverish  disturbance,  and  sometimes  has  made 
great  progress  before  the  true  character  of  the  disease  has 
been  discovered.  There  is  a  deep-seated,  dull  pain  beneath 
the  breast-bone  or  shoulder-blade;  a  great  feeling  of  illness; 
frequent  short  cough,  with  expectoration  of  viscid  matter  of 
a  green,  yellow,  or  pale  color,  sometimes  tinged  with  blood, 
which  forms  such  tenacious  masses  that  inversion  of  the 
vessel  containing  them  will  not  detach  them.  Profuse  green 
expectoration  is  a  serious  symptom.  The  breathing  is 
hurried  and  difficult,  the  skin  hot,  especially  in  the  regions 
of  the  armpits  and  ribs;  there  is  no  moisture  in  the  nostrils, 
and  there  exists  great  thirst.  If  the  disease  is  unchecked, 
the  face  often  exhibits  patches  of  redness  and  lividity  and 
the  blood-vessels  of  the  neck  become  swollen  and  turgid. 
The  patient  may  sink  either  from  exhaustion  or  obstruction 
of  the  lungs. 

Treatment. 

1st.     General  treatment  of  the  neck. 

2d.  Place  the  knee  between  the  shoulders  and  raise  the 
arms  slowly,  gently,  but  very  strongly,  high  above  the  head, 
lowering  them  with  a  backward  motion  (cut  2). 

Treat  every  few  hours  as  the  case  may  seem  to  require. 
Instant  relief  will  be  the  result  of  this  treatment,  and  in  a  few 
days  a  complete  cure.  We  have  taken  numerous  cases  in 
their  last  stages,  and  never  failed  to  be  rewarded  with  the 
most  gratifying  results. 


I44  OSTEOPATHY. 

NEURALGIA. 

Symptoms. 

This  is  a  disease  of  the  nervous  system,  and  the 
symptoms  consist  of  severe  paroxysms  of  pain,  of  a  purely 
nervous  character.  The  pain  is  generally  very  severe  and 
more  or  less  darting,  sometimes  burning,  tearing,  aching, 
and  beating.  In  some  cases  it  causes  the  patient  to  start 
suddenly,  and  spasmodic  twitchings  of  the  muscles  are  not 
uncommon.  Sometimes  there  is  tenderness  of  the  part  on 
pressure,  especially  on  slight  pressure,  while  hard  pressure 
affords  partial  relief. 

This  disease  is  not  confined  to  any  particular  part  of  the 
body.  When  it  is  in  the  nerves  of  the  jaws  and  teeth,  it 
causes  one  of  the  most  distressing  and  unendurable  forms 
of  toothache.  The  eyes,  temples,  heart,  spine,  and  stomach 
are  not  unfrequently  attacked,  and  it  frequently  shifts  from 
one  to  the  other. 

Treatment. 

Neuralgia  of  any  part  should  be  treated  in  a  similar 
manner  to  rheumatism  of  that  part.  If  in  the  face,  a  general 
treatment  of  the  neck  should  be  given  (page  134).  A  general 
treatment  is  often  beneficial. 

This  disease  is  very  stubborn,  and  while  we  have  cured 
a  great  many  cases  instantly,  in  others  we  have  been 
entirely  baffled. 

SAINT  VITUS'S  DANCE. 

This  is  a  disease  characterized  by  convulsive  movements 
of  the  limbs,  occasioning  ludicrous  gesticulations,  and  arising 
from  involuntary  action  of  the  muscles.  It  has  been  wit- 
tily termed  "insanity  of  the  voluntary  muscles."  This  dis- 


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ease  is  caused  by  a  pressure  at  some  point  along  the  spinal 
column  upon  the  cerebro -spinal  cord,  and  can  be  either  cured 
or  great!}-  benefited  by  this  method  of  treatment. 

Treatment. 

1st.   Give  general  treatment  of  the  spine  (cut  3,  page  33). 

2d.  Place  one  hand  under  the  back  of  the  head,  the 
other  under  the  chin,  and  pull  slowly,  the  patient  relaxing 
all  his  muscles  until  the  body  moves  on  the  table. 

3d.  While  pulling  gently,  rotate  the  head  from  side  to 
side  (cut  4). 

4th.     Treat  the  extremities  as  in  rheumatism. 

Treatment  should  be  given  every  other  day. 

FISTULA. 

Fistula  usually  commences  with  swelling  near  the  rec- 
tum, attended  with  great  pain,  hardness,  and  acute  inflamma- 
lion;  the  tumor  advances  slowly  to  suppuration,  and  matter 
is  formed. 

In  some  cases,  howrever,  the  disease  proceeds  till  an 
opening  is  formed,  with  very  little  pain — so  much  so,  that 
the  patient  is  ignorant  of  the  time  when  it  formed ;  but  more 
generally  the  pain  is  very  severe,  swelling  great,  and  sup- 
puration very  extensive,  and,  in  consequence  of  the  pressure 
upon  the  neck  of  the  bladder  or  urethra,  there  is  a  suppression 
of  urine. 

Fistula  may  be  caused  either  by  a  fall  or  riding  a  spirited 
liorse,  bruising  and  possibly  dislocating  the  coccyx,  or  "tail- 
bone,"  as  it  is  usually  called,  causing  a  pressure  on  the  veins 
which  return  the  blood  from  these  parts. 

Treatment. 

1st.     Place  the  patient  on  the  side,  and,  using  the  limb 

as  a.  lever  (cut  IS),  with  (lie  hands,  beginning  at  Ihe  second 
—11— 


I46  OSTEOPATHY. 

lumbar  vertebra,  move  the  muscles  upward  and  outward 
from  the  spine  with  each  upward  motion  of  the  limb,  work- 
ing down  with  the  hands  as  low  as  the  coccyx,  very 
thoroughly. 

2d.     Flex  the  limbs  strongly  against  the  chest. 

3d.  Pass  the  index  finger  up  the  rectum  and  move  the 
coccyx  a  little  each  treatment  to  its  normal  position. 

This  treatment  will  cure  the  worst  case  of  fistula  in  from 
two  to  six  weeks. 

PILES. 

A  sensation  of  heat,  fullness,  and  perhaps  itching,  is 
felt  about  the  anus;  the  swelling  increases  until  small  tumors 
form,  which  are  sore  and  painful;  these  may  be  external  and 
visible  or  internal,  and  are  often  of  a.  bluish  color,  and,  when 
inflamed,  they  are  very  sore  and  painful  to  the  touch.  There 
is  frequently  a  discharge  of  blood,  especially  from  internal 
piles,  and  such  discharges  often  return  repeatedly  until  a 
habit  is  established,  and  there  is  a  feeling  of  fullness  before 
and  relief  after  such  discharges. 

Piles  that  do  not  bleed  are  called  Hind;  this  variety  is 
apt  to  take  on  inflammation,  when  they  become  full,  appear 
ready  to  burst,  and  are  so  very  sensitive  the  patient  can 
neither  sit,  lie  down,  nor  walk. 

Piles  are  really  a  varicose  condition  of  the  rectum,  and 
are  usually  the  result  of  an  obstruction  of  the  hemorrhoidal 
veins. 


1st.  Piles  are  often  caused  by  constipation,  and  in  such 
cases  our  constipation  treatment  ('page  <»!))  will  usually  effect 
a  cure. 


OSTEOPATHY. 


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2d.  Place  the  patient  on  the  face,  and,  with  a  thumb 
on  each  side  of  the  spine,  beginning  at  the  first  sacral  ver- 
tebra, move  the  muscles  very  deeply  upward  and  outward 
from  the  spine,  working  down  to  the  end  of  the  coccyx. 

3d.  If  the  patient  has  itching  or  bleeding  piles,  pass 
the  index  finger  its  entire  length  up  the  rectum,  very  care- 
fully moving  the  inner  muscles  from  side  to  side,  thus  freeing 
the  circulation.  In  protuding  piles  they  should  be  replaced, 
and  the  same  internal  treatment  given. 

There  is  no  danger  in  this  treatment,  and  we  have  never 
known  it  to  fail  to  effect  a  cure  in  from  two  to  six  weeks.  The 
internal  treatment,  which  is  rather  painful,  should  be  given 
but  once  a  week,  and  always  after  flushing  the  bowels.  Most 
rases  of  piles  can  be  cured  simply  by  our  constipation  treat- 
ment which  removes  the  usual  cause  of  this  distressing 
complaint. 

Of  the  many  aggravated  cases  cured  by  us,  we  will  men- 
tion the  case  of  a  gentleman  of  Scammon,  Kansas,  whose 
piles  protruded  an  inch  and  had  not  been  replaced  for 
twenty  years.  We' took  the  case  as  an  experiment,  hardly 
hoping  to  effect  a  cure.  In  three  weeks  our  patient]  was 
entirely  well,  and  up  to  the  present  time  has  had  no  return 
of  his  old  trouble. 

ABSCESSES. 
Symptoms. 

Abscesses  first  appear  as  a  hot.  hard  swelling,  accom- 
panied by  a  burning,  dull,  throbbing  sensation;  as  the  swell- 
ing gradually  increases  the  skin  covering  it  assumes  a  pur- 
ple or  brownish  red  tint,  and  in  a  few  days  softens  and  sup- 
puration lakes  place  at  several  points;  the  matter  is  a  thin, 
walery,  and  scanty  discharge,  but,  if  pressure  be  applied,  a 
thick,  glutinous  fluid  may  be  squeezed  out. 


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Treatment. 

1st.  Move  the  flesh  and  muscles  very  deeply  in  all 
directions  for  some  distance  around  the  abscess. 

2d.  Move  the  abscess  from  side  to  side,  pressing  and 
rubbing  it  gently. 

Any  abscess  can  be  cured  in  this  manner  in  a  very  few 
days,  and  the  pain  instantly  relieved. 

COLD,  HOT,  OR  ACHING  FEET  AND  MILK  LEG. 

These  troubles  are  caused  by  a  contraction  of  the  mus- 
cles, usually  in  the  thigh  in  cold  cxJi-cmilies,  obstructing  the 
free  flow  of  arterial  blood,  while  in  the  Jailer  troubles  i(  is 
the  returning  blood  which  is  obstructed;  in  either  case  ilic 
heart,  pumping  the  blood  steadily  against  the  obstruction, 
is  at  a  disadvantage,  and  soon  heart  disease  is  the  result. 
J?y  using  the  leg  as  a  lever,  moving  and  stretching  the  mus- 
cles in  all  possible  directions,  we  remove  the  cause,  and  an 
immediate  cure  is  the  result. 

Treatment. 
The  same  as  in  inflammatory  rheumatism  (page  117). 

BACKACHE. 

Treatment. 

Place  the  patient  on  the  side,  and,  beginning  at  the  first 
lumbar  vertebra,  with  the  fingers  close  to  the  spine,  with  a 
steady  pressure  move  the  muscles  upward  and  outward  with 
a  circular  motion,  moving  the  fingers  down  one  inch  after 
each  upward  motion  until  the  lower  part  of  the  sacrum  is 
reached ;  treat  the  other  side  in  a  similar  manner. 

Instant  relief  is  always  the  result  of  this  treatment,  and, 
if  continued  a  few  days,  a  permanent  cure.  Treatment 
should  be  given  each  day. 


OSTEOPATHY.  I^g 

BILIOUSNESS. 

Symptoms. 

There  is  more  or  less  fullness  and  sensation  of  a  load  or 
other  symptoms  of  uneasiness  in  the  region  of  the  stomach; 
there  is  languor,  dull  headache,  or  sleepiness,  and  sometimes 
slight  yellowishness  of  the  eyes  and  skin. 

Treatment. 

1st.     General  treatment  of  the  spine  (page  32). 

2d.  Place  the  knee  between  the  shoulders  on  the  fourth 
dorsal  vertebra,  and,  while  pressing  hard,  raise  the  arms 
slowly  but  very  strongly  high  above  the  head,  lowering  them 
with  a  backward  motion  (cut  2). 

The  most  stubborn  case  can  be  cured  in  this  manner  in 
from  two  to  six  weeks,  treatment  to  be  given  every  other 
day. 

BALDNESS. 

Baldness  is  caused  by  an  obstruction  in  the  cutaneous 
circulation,  and  can  be  prevented  by  our  method  of 
treatment. 

Treatment. 

1st.     General  treatment  of  the  neck  (page  134). 

2d.  Move  the  scalp  in  all  directions,  working  it  as  loose 
as  possible,  once  each  day,  thus  freeing  the  blood-supply. 

It  is  indeed  surprising  how  soon  this  treatment  will 
check  the  falling  out  of  the  hair  and  promote  a  renewed 
growth. 


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CANKER  OF  THE  MOUTH. 

Symptoms. 

This  disease  is  characterized  by  the  membrane  covering 
the  sides  of  the  tongue  and  inside  of  the  cheeks  becoming  red 
and  inflamed,  and  afterwards  covered  with  large  ulcers. 
The  tongue  becomes  swollen,  there  is  a  profuse  secretion  of 
saliva,  the  breath  is  offensive,  and  swallowing  is  difficult. 

Treatment. 

1st.     General  treatment  of  the  neck. 

2d.  Place  the  finger  in  the  mouth  and  gently  move  the 
inflamed  swollen  surface  as  deeply  as  possible  in  all  direc- 
tions, rubbing  the  ulcers  gently. 

This  treatment  starts  the  circulation,  gives  immediate 
relief,  and  in  a  few  days  a  complete  cure.  Treatment  is  to 
be  given  once  each  day. 

CRICK  IN  THE  NECK. 

This  is  a  form  of  rheumatism  caused  by  a  cold  draught 
striking  the  neck.  The  muscles  of  that  side  of  the  neck  con- 
tract, causing  difficulty  in  moving  the  head.  This  can  be  in- 
stantly cured  by  a  thorough  general  treatment  of  the  neck. 

EARACHE. 

Symptoms. 

An  excessive  throbbing  pain  in  the  ear.  The  more  vio- 
lent forms  of  this  disease  are  attended  with  excruciating, 
throbbing  pains,  delirium,  and  sometimes  convulsions. 


OSTEOPATHY.  l^>l 

Treatment. 

1st.     General  treatment  of  the  neck. 

2d.  Place  the  finger  in  the  ear  and  move  the  muscles  as 
deeply  as  possible. 

3d.  Place  the  lips  close  to  the  ear  and  blow  gently,  but 
very  hard. 

4th.  Move  all  the  muscles  deeply  immediately  around 
the  ear. 

Instant  relief  is  usually  the  result;  in  very  stubborn 
cases  several  treatments  may  be  necessary. 

PIMPLES. 

Pimples  are  caused  by  an  obstruction  to  the  cutaneous 
veins,  and  are  easily  cured  by  a  general  treatment  of  the  neck 
(page  1.34). 

DIZZINESS. 

Symptoms. 

The  patient  is  suddenly  seized  with  a  sense  of  swimming 
in  the  head;  everything  appears  to  him  to  turn  around;  he 
staggers,  and  is  in  danger  of  falling.  This  complaint  is  at- 
tended with  very  little  danger  when  it  arises  from  hysterics 
or  any  nervous  disorder,  but  when  it  arises  from  an  un- 
natural quantity  of  blood  in  the  head,  there  is  danger  of 
apoplexy.  This  complaint  often  proceeds  from  difficult  or 
obstructed  menstruation. 

Treatment. 

This  disease  can  be  cured  in  from  two  to  six  weeks  by 
our  general  treatment  (page  1C'),  which  will  remove  the  cause 
and  permit  a  natural  How  of  all  the  fluids  of  the  body. 


1 52  OSTEOPATHY. 

FITS  AND  CONVULSIONS. 

While  fits  and  convulsions  can  be  instantly  relieved  by 
a  genral  treatment  of  the  neck  (page  134)  and  spine  (page  32), 
as  a  rule,  they  are  very  stubborn,  not  over  50  per  cent  being- 
cured  by  our  method,  and  those  cases  only  after  long-con- 
tinued treatment,  to  be  given  every  other  day. 

HOARSENESS. 

A  general  treatment  of  the  neck  once  or  twice  each  day 
will  cure  this  trouble  in  a  very  short  time. 

CHRONIC  GOUT. 

This  is  a  persistent  constitutional  affection,  character- 
ized by  stiffness  and  swelling  of  various  joints,  with  depos- 
its of  u rate  of  soda. 

Symptoms. 

The  deposits  in  the  joints  constitute  the  distinguishing 
feature.  Chronic  stiffness  and  swelling  of  various  joints, 
with  pain,  are  considered  as  cases  of  chronic  rheumatism  or 
gout. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Treat  the  limbs  as  in  inflammatory  rheumatism 
every  other  da.y. 

A  continuation  of  this  treatment  will  be  of  vast  benefit 
to  the  patient,  even  though  it  may  not  effect  a  complete  cure. 

HIP  DISEASE  (WHITE  SWELLING). 

This  is  a  very  painful  disease,  and  is  usually  seated  on 
some  of  the  joints  of  the  body,  principally  the  hip,  knee, 
ankle,  and  elbow.  The  skin  remains  wrhite,  even  in  great 


OSTEOPATHY.  153 

inflammation.  Sometimes  the  disease  is  rather  mild  in  its 
character,  at  others  very  painful  ;  the  seat  of  the  pain  is  in  the 
periosteum,  or  covering  of  the  bone,  which  in  most  cases  be- 
diseased  and  scales  off. 


Symptoms. 

In  the  commencement  there  is  a  very  severe  pain  felt  deep 
in  the  joint,  and  when  the  person  moves,  the  pain  becomes 
intolerable;  as  it  progresses,  there  is  swelling,  but  no  red- 
ness —  a  shining  whiteness,  with  hardness  or  callous;  it 
slowly  increases  until  the  swelling  is  very  great;  there  is  a 
discharge  of  matter;  the  limb  wastes,  becomes  bent,  and., 
when  in  the  hip,  osseous  matter  fills  up  the  joint  and  slowly 
dislocates  the  head  of  the  bone,  either  causing  permanent  dis- 
location or  stiffness  in  the  process  of  time;  there  are  gener- 
ally small  pieces  of  bone  detached;  the  patient  is  very  thin, 
with  much  constitutional  disturbance,  hectic  fever,  etc. 

Treatment. 

This  disease,  if  taken  in  a  reasonable  time,  can  be  cured 
in  a  few  treatments. 

1st.  Move  the  joint  in  all  directions  as  strongly  as  the 
patient  can  stand. 

2d.  With  the  hands  move  all  the  flesh  and  muscles  very 
deeply  for  some  distance  around  the  joint,  thus  freeing  the 
circulation  and  permitting  Nature  to  act. 

After  dislocation  takes  place,  the  treatment  will  loosen 
the  join!  and  render  the  limb  much  more  useful. 

CHAMP  IN  THE  LEGS. 

Symptoms. 

Sudden  contraction  of  the  muscles  of  the  calf  of  the  leg, 
frequently  the  result  of  indigestion. 


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OSTEOPATHY. 


Tntttmtnt. 


1st.  Flex  the  limb  strongly  against  the  chest  (cut  6), 
extending  it  with  a  light  jerk. 

2d.  Move  all  the  muscles  of  the  leg  very  deeply  from 
right  to  left  and  left  to  right,  beginning  at  the  thigh. 

This  treatment  will  give  instant  relief,  and  a  few  trcal 
ments  will  effect  a  permanent  cure. 

COLIC. 

Symptoms. 

Severe  twisting,  griping  pain  in  the  abdomen,  chiefly 
around  the  navel,  relieved  by  pressure,  so  that  the  patient 
doubles  himself  up,  lies  on  his  stomach,  or  rolls  on  the  floor, 
writhing  in  agony.  The  bowels  are  usually  constipated,  but 
there  is  a  frequent  desire  to  relieve  them,  although  little  is 
passed  but  wind;  there  is  no  fever,  nor  is  the  pulse  even 
quickened  unless  after  a  time  it  becomes  so  from  anxiety. 
The  paroxysms  of  pain  are  owing  to  the  efforts  of  the  bowels 
above  to  force  downwards  the  mass  of  accumulated  gas  or 
feces,  while  the  lower  portion  is  contracted.  Colic  is  some- 
times mistaken  for  inflammation  of  the  bowels,  but  may  be 
distinguished  by  the  fact  that  in  colic  there  is  no  fever,  and 
in  inflammation  the  fever  is  high  and  there  is  great  accelera- 
tion of  the  pulse. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  knee  in  the  back  at  the  twelfth  dorsal 
vertebra,  and  raise  the  arms  high  above  the  head,  lifting 
strongly  while  pressing  hard  with  the  knee. 

2d.     Bend  the  patient  backward  over  the  knee. 

3d.  Place  patient  on  the  back  and  knead  the  bowels  as 
in  constipation  (page  70). 

This  treatment  will  usually  give  instant  relief. 


OSTEOPATHY.  155 

FAINTING. 

Fainting  is  a  Joss  of  volitiou  and  muscular  power  with 
complete  or  partial  loss  of  consciousness,  due  to  defective 
nervous  power.  It  has  various  causes:  debility  from  consti- 
tutional tendencies,  or  from  loss  of  bk>od  or  other  animal 
fluids;  emotional  disturbances,  fright,  sudden  joy  or  grief, 
hysteria,  etc.  Many  persons  faint  on  seeing  blood  or  a 
wound. 

Treatment. 

1st     General  treatment  of  the  neck  (page  134). 
2d.     General  treatment  of  the  spine  (page  32). 

THE  UTERUS. 

That  our  readers  may  gain  a  more  correct  understanding 
of  our  method  of  treating  diseases  peculiar  to  women,  it  will 
be  necessary  to  refer  once  more  to  the  anatomy. 

The  uterus  is  the  organ  of  gestation,  receiving  the 
fecundated  ovum  in  its  cavity,  retaining  and  supporting  it 
during  the  development  of  the  totus,  and  becoming  the 
principal  agent  in  its  expulsion  at  the  time  of  parturition. 
In  the  virgin  state  it  is  pear-shaped,  flattened  from  before 
backward,  and  situated  in  the  cavity  of  the  pelvis  between 
the  bladder  and  rectum;  it  is  retained  in  its  position  by  the 
round  and  broad  ligament  on  each  side  and  projecting  into 
the  vagina  below.  Its  upper  end,  or  base,  is  directed  upward 
and  forward;  its  lower  end,  or  apex,  downward  and  back- 
ward in  line  of  the  axis  of  the  inlet  of  the  pelvis.  The  uterus 
measures  about  three  inches  in  length,  two  in  breadth  at  its 
upper  part,  and  nearly  an  inch  in  thickness,  and  weighs  from 
an  ounce  to  an  ounce  and  one-half. 

The  size,  weight,  and  location  of  the  uterus  varies  at 


156  OSTEOPATHY. 

different  periods  of  life  and  under  different  circumstances. 
In  the  foatus  the  uterus  is  contained  in  the  abdominal  cavity, 
projecting  beyond  the  brim  of  the  pelvis.  At  puberty  the 
uterus  is  pyriform  in  shape,  and  weighs  from  eight  to  ten 
drams;  it  has  descended  into  the  pelvis,  the  fundus  being 
just  below  the  level  of  the  brim  of  this  cavity.  During  men- 
struation the  organ  is  enlarged  and  more  vascular,  its  sur- 
faces rounder,  and  the  lining  membrane  of  the  body  thicker, 
softer,  and  of  a  darker  color.  During  pregnancy  the  uterus 
becomes  enormously  enlarged,  and  in  the  ninth  month 
reaches  the  epigastric  region.  After  parturition  the  uterus 
regains  nearly  its  natural  position  and  size,  weighing  about 
an  ounce  and  a  half. 

THE  FALLOPIAN  TUBES. 

The  Fallopian  tubes,  or  oviducts,  convey  the  ova  from 
the  ovaries  to  the  cavity  of  the  uterus;  they  are  two  in  num- 
ber, one  on  each  side,  situated  in  the  upper  margin  of  the 
broad  ligament,  extending  from  each  superior  angle  of  the 
uterus  to  the  sides  of  the  pelvis;  each  tube  is  about  four 
inches  in  length.  The  general  direction  of  the  Fallopian 
tubes  is  outward,  backward,  and  downward.  The  uterine 
opening  is  minute,  and  will  only  admit  a  fine  bristle;  the  ab- 
dominal opening  is  comparatively  much  larger. 

THE   OVARIES. 

The  ovaries  are  oval-shaped  bodies,  flattened  from  above 
downward,  situated  one  on  each  side  of  the  uterus  in  the 
posterior  part  of  the  broad  ligament,  behind  and  below  the 
Fallopian  tubes.  Each  ovary  is  connected  by  its  anterior 
straight  margin  to  the  broad  ligament,  by  its  inner  extremity 
to  the  uterus  by  a  proper  ligament,  the  ligament  of  the  ovary, 


OSTEOPATHY.  157 

and  by  its  outer  end  to  the  fimbriated  extremity  of  the 
Fallopian  tube.  The  ovaries  are  each  about  an  inch  and  a 
half  in  length,  three-quarters  of  an  inch  in  width,  and  about 
a  third  of  an  inch  in  thickness.  The  uterus  being  suspended 
by  muscles  and  ligaments  in  the  cavity  of  the  pelvis,  and 
being  subject  to  so  many  and  such  radical  changes,  it  is  in 
no  way  surprising  that  ulceration,  polypus,  cancer,  and 
prolapse  of  the  uterus  are  so  very  prevalent. 

DISPLACEMENTS  OF  THE  UTERUS. 

The  true  pathology  or  proximate  condition  of  these 
affections  is  but  little  understood  by  the  medical  profession, 
as  is  apparent  from  the  general  ill  success  attending  the  ordi- 
nary treatment.  The  term  prolapsus  is  used  indiscriminately 
for  all  degrees  of  simple  descent  or  falling  of  the  ivomb;  but 
some  books  use  the  term  relaxation  when  the  descent  is  only 
to  the  middle  of  the  vagina,  procidentia  when  the  uterus 
descends  to  the  labia,  and  prolapsus  when  it  protrudes  exter- 
nally. Retroversion  is  that  form  of  displacement  in  which 
the  fundus  uteri  descends  toward  the  sacrum,  the  os  uteri, 
or  mouth  of  the  womb,  inclining  towards  the  pubes.  Antever- 
sion  is  the  reverse  of  the  preceding,  the  fundus  falling  for- 
ward and  the  os  uteri  inclining  backward.  In  inversion  the 
organ  is  turned  inside  out  wrhile  in  a  state  of  prolapse.  In 
some  cases  the  upper  part  of  the  vagina  protrudes  into  the 
lower,  constituting  what  is  called  prolapse  of  the  vagina. 

Symptoms. 

• 

Prolapse  of  the  uterus  is  attended  with  a  heavy,  dis- 
agreeable, or  painful  dragging-down  sensalion  at  the  lower 
part  of  the  abdomen,  aching  or  weakness  about  the  small  of 
the  back,  and,  when  severe,  great  difficulty  or  inability  in 
walking.  At  first  there  is  increased  'mucous  secretion, 


I5g  OSTEOPATHY. 

which  increases  by  degrees  until  it  acquires  the  character 
of  an  obstinate  leucorrhea. 

When  the  uterus  is  rctrovcrted,  the  bowels  are  irregular 
or  constipated,  and  from  the  pressure  of  the  displaced  organ 
in  the  rectum  behind  and  urethra  in  front  there  is  more  or 
less  difficulty  experienced  in  expelling  the  contents  of  the 
bowels  and  bladder.  In  this  situation  the  womb  often  be- 
comes congested,  inflammatory,  and  enlarged,  and  every 
attempt  at  walking  is  exceedingly  painful  and  exhausting. 
In  bad  cases  the  patient  can  only  endure  a  fixed,  motionless 
position  in  her  chair  or  bed.  There  is,  too,  usually  consider- 
able tenderness  and  tension  of  the  whole  abdomen. 

Anteversion  is  a  less  frequent  occurrence;  it  is  denoted 
by  difficulty  in  walking,  sense  of  weight  or  fullness  in  the 
pelvis,  with  many  of  the  symptoms  of  prolapse,  and  is  at- 
tended with  much  less  difficulty  in  evacuating  urine  and 
faeces  than  retroversion. 

Inversion  is  known  by  the  organ  hanging  down  exter- 
nally; it  is  usually  the  result  of  violence  in  extracting  the 
placenta,  but  may  occur  from  an  adhesion  of  the  placenta 
or  from  polypous  tumors.  In  some  instances  the  falling  of 
the  uterus  or  vagina  drags  along  the  bladder  with  it,  consti- 
tuting what  is  called  complicated  prolapse.  In  this  case  the 
bladder,  being  deprived  of  the  expulsory  aid  of  the  abdom- 
inal muscles,  is  incapable  of  evacuating  its  contents  without 
artificial  assistance. 

Genital  excrescence  consists  in  polypus  or  other  tumors 
issuing  from  the  surface  of  the  uterus  or  vagina;  they  are  of 
all  sizes  and  various  degrees  of  consistency,  from  the  soft- 
ness of  the  sponge  to  the  firmness  of  leather. 

Special  Causes. 

Although  medical  authors  and  professors  of  midwifery 
are  continually  talking  about  ''relaxation  of  ligaments," 


OSTEOPATHY. 


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which  hold  the  uterus  in  position,  as  the  main  cause  of  its 
displacement,  it  is  quite  clear  that  this  relaxation  has  noth- 
ing whatever  to  do  with  it;  the  yielding  or  elongation  of  the 
ligament  itself  being  an  effect  of  the  displacement.  The  nat- 
ural supports  of  the  uterus  are  the  vagina  and  abdominal 
muscles;  if  the  former  is  greatly  relaxed,  the  uterus  will 
descend,  and  the  ligaments,  being  kept  constantly  on  the 
stretch,  will  finally  elongate  more  or  less;  and  if  the  abdom- 
inal muscles  are  greatly  debilitated,  they  do  not  contract 
vigorously,  so  as  to  keep  up  equable  and  uniform  compres- 
sion in  all  the  various  positions  of  the  body,  and  hence  the 
uterus  is  liable  to  fall  forward  or  backward,  or  to  incline 
laterally;  and  when  both  are  badly  relaxed  and  debilitated, 
we  find  both  conditions  of  displacement — falling  down  and 
tipping  transversely  across  the  pelvis. 

In  corroboration  of  this  view  of  the  subject,  we  may 
advert  to  the  fact  that  all  the  cases  of  uterine  displacement 
met  with  in  our  practice,  with  the  single  and  rare  exception 
of  such  as  are  produced  by  violence,  occur  in  females  who 
suffer  from  the  very  circumstances  which  are  most  efficient 
in  inducing  muscular  relaxation  of  these  parts,  as  constipa- 
tion, piles,  dyspepsia,  nervous  debility,  mis-menstruation, 
abortions  or  miscarriages,  preternatural  labors,  etc. 

It  is  a  wTell-known  fact  that  all  cases  of  female  troubles 
are  accompanied  by  a  wreak,  lame  back,  and  it  is  to  this  point 
we  trace  the  real  cause  of  most  cases  of  falling  of  the  womb 
and  other  troubles  peculiar  to  w-omen.  Either  by  an  acci- 
dent or  overwork,  the  muscles  of  the  back,  from  the  first 
lumbar  vertebra  to  the  last  sacral,  have  become  strained, 
causing  contraction  and  a  consequent  pressure  on  the  nerves 
which  control  the  organs  of  generation,  thus  breaking  the 
nervous  current  from  the  brain  to  these  parts,  interfering 
with  the  circulation  and  permitting  the  muscles  which  hold 


T6o  OSTEOPATHY. 

the  organs  of  generation  in  place  to  *elax.  The  fact  thai  our 
treatment  gives  not  only  instant  relief  in  most  cases,  but  a 
permanent  cure  in  all,  if  continued  from  three  to  six  weeks, 
is  ample  proof  that  in  female  complaints,  as  well  as  in  all 
other  troubles  to  which  it  has  been  applied,  the  never-failing 
principles  of  Osteopathy  are  as  superior  to  the  old  methods 
of  healing  as  electricity  is  superior  to  the  tallow  candle 

Treatment. 

1st.  If  the  patient  is  constipated,  flush  the  bowels  and 
give  constipation  treatment  (page  GO). 

2d.  Place  the  patient  on  the  side;  beginning  at  1 1n- 
first  lumbar  vertebra,  with  the  fingers  close  to  the  spine. 
move  the  muscles  gently  but  very  deeply  upward  and  out- 
ward from  the  spine,  as  low  as  the  last  sacral  vertebra,  being 
very  thorough.  In  the  sacral  region  move  all  the  muscles 
upward  very  deeply,  for  about  two  inches,  on  each  side  of 
the  spine,  as  it  is  here  we  strike  foramina  (openings  in  the 
bone)  that  transmit  nerves  directly  to  the  organs  in  question, 

od.  Insert  the  finger  and  move  the  womb  gently  to  its 
normal  position. 

The  local  treatment  is  seldom  if  ever  necessary.  We 
have  noticed,  in  our  extensive  practice,  that  while  adjusting 
the  uterus  gave  temporary  relief,  cases  in  which  no  local 
treatment  was  given  recoverd  as  rapidly,  thus  proving  that 
to  free  and  stretch  the  muscles  of  the  back,removingall  pres- 
sure from  the  nerves,  enabling  them  to  regain  control  of  the 
parts  in  question,  would  cause  the  muscles  attached  to  the 
uterus  to  contract  and  draw  that  organ  to  its  proper  position. 
Immediately  after  the  first  treatment,  the  back  will  feel 
easier,  and  in  a  few  weeks  at  most  a  complete  and  permanent 
cure  will  be  effected.  We  take  great  pleasure  in  recom- 
mending this  treatment  to  the  public,  it  is  so  easily  adminis- 
tered and  so  infallible. 


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Cut  22. 


OSTEOPATHY. 


SUPPRESSED  MENSTRUATION. 


163 


Suppressed  menstruation  is  attended  with  headache, 
difficult  breathing,  and  palpitation;  also  languor  and  many 
dyspeptic  symptoms,  particularly  a  capricious  appetite,  and 
not  infrequently  a  longing  for  innutrient  and  injurious  sub- 
stances, as  clay,  slate-stone,  charcoal,  etc.  In  many  cases 
there  is  an  harassing  cough  and  symptoms  of  a  general 
decline. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Place  the  patient  on  the  face,  and,  with  the  thumbs 
on  each  side  of  the  spine,  beginning  at  the  first  lumbar  verte- 
bra, move  the  muscles  very  deeply  upward  and  outward  from 
the  spine  as  low  as  the  last  sacral  vertebra  (cut  19). 

2d.  Place  the  fingers  close  to  the  spine,  and,  with  a 
steady  pressure,  draw  the  hands  outwrard  and  upward  on  each 
side  from  the  first  lumbar  vertebra  to  the  sacrum  (see  cut  22). 

3d.  Place  one  thumb  on  each  side  of  the  spine,  begin- 
ning at  the  second  lumbar  vertebra,  and,  while  pressing  hard, 
have  an  assistant  move  the  limbs  gently  to  the  left,  raising 
them  as  high  as  the  patient  can  bear  and  returning  them  to 
their  former  position  with  a  circular  motion.  Move  the 
thumbs  down  one  inch  and  repeat  until  the  second  sacral 
vertebra  is  reached  (cut  23).  Care  should  be  taken  to  move 
the  limbs  slowly  and  to  raise  them  only  as  high  as  the  pa- 
tient can  readily  bear. 

This  treatment  in  these  cases  is  infallible.  In  ordinary 
cases  two  or  three  treatments  will  effect  a  cure;  but  one 
stubborn  case  in  our  experience,  that  of  a  young  lady  who 
had  been  sufferng  for  two  years,  took  three  months. 


!64  OSTEOPATHY. 

LEUCOKRHEA. 

Symptoms. 

Generally  there  is  a  profuse  mucous  discharge  from  the 
utero-vaginal  lining  membrane  of  a  white,  cream,  yellow,  or 
greenish  color,  thin  and  watery  or  of  the  consistency  of 
starch  or  gelatine,  and  it  may  be  inodorous  or  fetid.  When 
the  discharge  proceeds  from  the  vagina,  it  is  generally  a 
light,  creamj'-looking  fluid;  in  ulceration  of  the  mouth  of  the 
womb  it  is  profuse  and  semipurulent.  In  severe  cases  the 
whole  system  becomes  injuriously  affected;  the  face  is  pale 
or  sallow,  the  functions  of  digestion  are  impaired,  there  are 
dull  pains  in  the  loins  and  abdomen,  cold  extremities,  palpi- 
tation and  difficult  breathing  after  exertion,  debility  and  loss 
of  energy,  and  partial  or  entire  suppression  of  the  menstrual 
flow. 

Treatment. 

A  thorough  general  treatment  every  other  day,  being 
very  thorough  in  the  lumbar  region,  will  cure  any  case  of  this 
disease. 

CHANGE  OF  LIFE. 

Symptoms. 

While  the  change  is  in  progress  there  is  commonly  more 
or  less  functional  disturbance  of  the  general  health,  the  nerv- 
ous system  especially  manifesting  various  changes,  such  as 
vertigo,  syncope,  headache,  flushes  of  heat,  urinary  troubles, 
pains  in  the  back  extending  down  the  thighs  with  creeping 
sensations,  heat  in  the  lower  part  of  the  abdomen,  occa- 
sional swelling  of  the  lower  extremities,  itching  of  the  pri- 
vate parts,  mental  irritability  and  restlessness,  culminating 
seriously  sometimes,  especially  in  patients  of  a  decided  nerv- 


Cut  23. 


OSTEOPATHY.  !6y 

ous  character.  Sometimes  menstruation  ceases  abruptly. 
The  monthly  period  may  be  arrested  by  cold,  fright,  or  some 
illness;  earlier  in  life  the  suppression  would  have  been  fol- 
lowed by  a  return  of  menstruation  after  removal  of  the 
cause,  but  now  Nature  adopts  this  opportunity  to  terminate 
the  function.  Gradual  termination  is,  however,  more  fre- 
quent and  is  attended  with  less  disturbance  of  health.  In 
gradual  extinction  one  period  is  missed  and  then  there  is  a 
return,  a  longer  time  elapses  and  there  is  an  excessive  flow; 
this  continues  for  a  time,  the  returns  being  fewer  and  farther 
apart,  until  they  cease  altogether. 

At  this  critical  period  there  is  not  infrequently  an 
enlargement  of  the  abdomen,  which,  though  it  may  occur  ear- 
lier in  life,  is  due  to  causes  peculiar  to  this. 

Treatment. 

A  general  treatment  every  other  day  will  equalize  the 
circulation  and  give  wonderful  relief  (page  93). 

GATHERED  BREASTS. 

Symptoms. 

When  inflammation  occurs  in  the  tissues  behind  the 
breast  and  on  which  it  is  placed,  the  pain  is  severe,  throbbing, 
deep-seated,  and  increased  by  moving  the  arm  and  shoulder; 
the  breast  becomes  swollen,  red,  and  more  prominent, 
being  pushed  forward  by  the  abscess  behind.  Sometimes, 
l)ii I  less  frequently,  the  breast  itself  is  involved,  when  the 
pain  becomes  very  acute  and  cutting,  the  swelling  very  con- 
siderable, and  there  is  much  constitutional  disturbance — 
quick,  full  pulse,  hot  skin,  thirst,  headache,  sleeplessness, 
elc.  This  variety  of  gathered  breasts  is  preceded  by  rigors 
(shivering  fits),  followed  by  heat. 


:68  OSTEOPATHY. 

Treatment. 

1st.  Raise  the  arms  high  above  the  head,  with  the  knee 
between  the  shoulders,  lowering  the  arms  with  a  backward 
motion. 

2d.     Move  all  the  muscles  near  the  breasts  very  deeply. 

3d.  Move  the  breasts  gently  in  all  directions,  raising 
them  up  and  endeavoring  to  free  all  the  glands,  muscles, 
and  circulation. 

Treat  every  few  hours.  Immediate  relief,  and  a  cure  in 
a  very  short  time,  will  be  the  result. 

OBSTETRICS. 

In  all  cases  of  obstetrics,  except  those  in  which  through 
some  malformation  it  becomes  necessary  to  use  instruments 
in  effecting  the  delivery,  Osteopathy  is  indeed  a  grand  suc- 
cess, diminishing  the  hours  of  labor  at  least  three-fourths 
and  reducing  the  suffering  of  the  patient  in  a  most  remark- 
able manner. 

Treatment. 

1st.  During  the  first  stage  of  labor,  with  a  finger  on 
either  side  of  the  clitoris,  press  gently  but  rather  hard;  this 
pressure  will  cause  a  painless  and  complete  dilatation  of  the 
cervix  in  a  comparatively  short  time.  Remove  the  fingers 
for  an  instant,  and  the  patient  screams  with  pain;  resume 
the  pressure,  and  instant  relief  is  the  result. 

2d.  In  the  second  stage,  as  soon  as  the  bearing-down 
pains  begin,  press  gently  but  rather  hard  from  the  second 
to  the  last  lumbar  vertebra,  on  each  side  of  the  spine.  As  long 
as  the  pressure  is  continued,  your  patient  will  suffer  no  pain; 
remove  your  hands  for  an  instant,  and  she  cries:  "Oh,  Doc- 
tor! niy  back!  my  back!"  It  seems  that  a  pressure  at  the 


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169 


points  in  question  must,  in  some  remarkable  manner,  break 
the  nervous  current  between  the  brain  and  the  muscles  that 
are  resisting  the  delivery  of  the  foetus,  thus  depriving  them  of 
their  power  of  contraction  and  permitting  the  almost  unob- 
structed and  painless  delivery  of  the  child. 

3d.  During  the  interval  of  rest  between  the  birth  of  the 
child  and  the  delivery  of  the  placenta  flex  the  limb  upon  the 
chest,  and,  while)  an  assistant  presses  hard  on  the  great 
trochanter,  extend  the  leg,  abducting  the  knee  and  adduct- 
ing  the  foot  as  much  as  possible;  it  will  take  but  a  moment 
and  remove  the  cause  of  the  numerous  aches  and  pains  in  the 
hips  and  limbs,  often  the  result  of  confinement. 

If  the  physician  or  midwife  in  attendance  will  adopt 
this  method  as  an  accessory  to  their  usual  treatment,  they 
will  be  surprised  and  gratified  at  the  results. 

THE  SKELETON. 

The  entire  skeleton  in  the  adult  consist  of  200  bones. 

The  vertebra?  are  33  in  number,  and  are  called  cervical, 
dorsal,  lumbar,  sacral,  and  coccygeal,  according  to  the  posi- 
tion which  they  occupy;  7  being  found  in  the  cervical  region, 
12  in  the  dorsal,  5  in  the  lumbar,  5  in  the  sacral,  and  4  in  the 
coccygeal.  The  average  length  of  the  spine  is  about  2  feet 
and  2  or  3  inches;  of  this  length  the  cervical  part  measures 
about  5,  the  dorsal  11,  the  lumbar  about  7  inches,  and  the 
sacrum  and  coccyx  the  remainder. 

The  bones  of  the  cranium  arc  8  in  number,  while  those 
of  the  face  number  14. 

The  os  hyoides,  sternum,  and  ribs,  26. 

The  upper  extremities,  64. 

The  lower  extremities,  62. 

The  bones  of  the  upper  extremities  consist  of  the  clavi- 


170 


OSTEOPATHY. 


cle,  or  collar-bone;  the  scapula,  or  shoulder-blade;  the 
humerus,  the  longest  and  largest  bone  of  the  upper  extrem- 
ities; the  ulna,  so  called  from  its  forming  the  elbow;  the 
radius,  lying  side  by  side  with  the  ulna;  8  carpal  or  wrist 
bones,  5  metacarpal  or  bones  of  the  palm,  and  the  14  bones 
of  the  phalanges  or  fingers. 

The  bones  of  the  lower  extremities  consist  of  the  os  in- 
nominatum,  so  called  from  its  bearing  no  resemblance  to  any 
known  object,  which,  with  its  fellow,  forms  the  sides  and  an- 
terior wall  of  the  pel  vis  (in  the  young  it  consists  of  three  sepa- 
rate bones,  and  although  in  the  adult  they  havebecome united, 
it  is  usually  described  as  the  ileum,  ischium,  and  os  pubes); 
the  femur,  or  thigh-bone,  the  largest,  longest,  and  strongest 
bone  in  the  body;  the  patella,  in  front  of  the  knee-joint;  the 
tibia,  the  fibula,  7  tarsal  and  5  metatarsal  bones,  and  14 
phalanges. 


OSTEOPATHY.  171 


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and  in  which  the  very  best  advantages  can  be  given  to  stu- 
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Requirements. 

The  requirements  of  the  National  School  of  Osteopathy 
shall  consist  of  a  complete  and  thorough  knowledge  of  Oste- 
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Minor  Surgery,  Urinary  Analysis,  and  Hygiene. 

Post-graduate  course  to  M.D.'s $150.00 

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Faculty. 

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Professor  of  Osteopathy  and  Obstetrics. 

Helen  M.  Barber,  D.O., 
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\V.  A.  Cormack,  M.D,  D.O., 

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OSTEOPATHY. 


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C.E.  ACHORN,  D  O.,  S.  A.  EXUS,  D.O., 

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Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

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OSTEOPATHY. 


The  Boston   Institute  of  Osteopathy, 

The  only  Osteopathic  School  in  the  East,  will  open  the  Fall 
term  September  1 , 1897. 

Osteopathy   presents   a  grand  field   to  ladies  or  gentle- 
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Correspondence  solicited. 

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